Philip Larkin Bücher

Philip Larkins letzter Gedichtband sowie eine subjektive Auswahl späterer, zu seinen Lebzeiten nur zum Teil veröffentlichter Gedichte in einer zweisprachigen Ausgabe.

Herausgegeben und mit einem Nachwort von James Booth. Aus dem Englischen von Steffen Jacobs. Auf den ersten Blick geht alles seinen geregelten Gang hinter der abweisenden Fassade des Mädcheninternats von Willow Gables: Vertrauensschülerinnen sorgen dafür, dass niemand über die Stränge schlägt, und pünktlich um zehn Uhr abends werden die Lichter im Schlafsaal gelöscht. Doch insgeheim sinnt die abgeklärte Margaret Tattenham längst auf Möglichkeiten, den Einsatz für eine angeblich todsichere Pferdewette aufzubringen. Als sich dann auch noch eine Vertrauensschülerin in die athletische Mannschaftsführerin des Cricketteams verliebt, kommt Philip Larkins frivole Parodie auf die populären englischen Mädchenromane richtig in Fahrt ...

Spanning forty-five years in the poet's life and encompassing more than seven hundred letters, this collection of Larkin's writings includes his correspondence with Kingsley Amis, Barbara Pym, Robert Conquest, his editors, and many others.

Since its publication in 1988, Philip Larkin's Collected Poems has become essential reading on any poetry bookshelf. This new edition returns to Larkin's own deliberate ordering of his poems, presenting, in their original sequence, his four published books: The North Ship, The Less Deceived, The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows. It also includes an appendix of poems that Larkin published in other places, from his juvenilia to his final years - some of which might have appeared in a late book, if he had lived. Preserving everything that he published in his lifetime, this new Collected Poems returns the reader to the book Larkin might have intended.

Thwaite has based the whole edition on the carefully preserved and dated notebooks and typescripts left by Larkin.

Philip Larkin (1922-1985) remains England's best-loved poet - a writer matchlessly capable of evoking his native land and of touching all readers from the most sophisticated intellectual to the proverbial common reader. The late John Betjeman observed that 'this tenderly observant poet writes clearly, rhythmically, and thoughtfully about what all of us can understand'. Behind this modest description lies a poet who made greatness look, in Milton's prescription, 'simple, sensuous and passionate'.This collection, first published in 1967, contains many of his best-loved poems, including The Whitsun Weddings, An Arundel Tomb, Days, Mr Bleaney and MCMXIV.

In particular, it was the years during which he and his sister looked after their mother that shaped the writer we know so well: a number of poems written over this time are for her, and the mood of pain, shadow and despondency that characterises his later verse draws its strength from his experience of the long, lonely years of her senility.

This story of Katherine Lind and Robin Fennel, of winter and summer, of war and peace, of exile and holidays.