Begin Afresh
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This volume will be of interest to students and researchers of Modernism, 20th Century Literature, Poetry, Language and Literature.
Begin Afresh: The Evolution of Philip Larkin’s Poetry offers incisive, insightful and yet lucid analyses of all the individual poems contained in the four major collections of Larkin (1922–1985).
It also deals with his “Juvenile Poems”, Brunette Coleman poems, those in In the Grip of Light and XX Poems, as well as his last poems. The book also discusses Larkin’s novels and débats. It evaluates the critical opinions regarding various aspects of Larkin’s poetry, especially the issue of its development, and shows that it may not follow a clearly identifiable, linear, chronological line of evolution, but it does evolve in a subtle way from one phase of his career to the next. The book explores how Larkin discovered his own original, inimitable, idiosyncratic poetic voice by truly democratising English poetry for the first time, by writing accessible and pleasurable poetry, and by forging a new poetic out of a philistine aesthetic, which stands out as an artistic holotype. It shows how Larkin restores the relation between poetry and the reading public, a relation which was broken down by Modernist poets. It also establishes how his poetic vision is neither optimistic nor pessimistic, but realistic in that it “preserves” the universal human condition without moralising or philosophising. The book aims to make a fresh departure in Larkin criticism and mark a new era in Larkin studies.
This volume will be of interest to students and researchers of Modernism, twentieth-century literature, poetry, language and literature.
Sisir Kumar Chatterjee is Associate Professor at Hooghly Mohsin College, Burdwan University, West Bengal, India. His first monograph on Philip Larkin was published in 2006 and he has published extensively on fiction, non-fiction and poetry. He co-edited The World of Agha Shahid Ali (2021) and is currently co-editing Arundhati Roy: Political, Ethical and Aesthetic Perspectives and a book on Thomas Hardy’s Mayor of Casterbridge. His novel Burning Burning was published in 2022.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Foreword
1: Introduction
"I Remember, I Remember"
Larkin’s Status as a Poet
Critical Controversies
The Evolution of Larkin’s Poetry
"Begin Afresh": A Re-Evaluation
Methodology
Notes
2: Early Poems to The North Ship (1938-1945)
Juvenile Poems
Brunette Coleman Poems: Sugar and Spice
The North Ship: Poeticisms, Rhetorical Hi-Jinks, and Innovative Imitation
A Fortuitous First Volume
"Poetical" Poems
"Yeats-y" Poems
Audenesque Poems
Gendered Poems
Eros-Thanatos Poems
Carpe diem
Purist Aestheticism
Poems of Poetic Vocation
Notes
3: From Novelist to Poet
The Novels and Débats
Biographical Pressures
Crisis: In the Grip of Light and XX Poems
Britain’s Political Transition
"The Movement"
Anti-Romanticism and Anti-Modernism
Religion, Consumerism, "Permissive Society" and "Race Relations"
Notes
4: The Less Deceived: "Clear-eyed Realism" and Demotic Poetics
Deceptions and Illusions
"Come and Choose Wrong": Choice
"Threadbare Perspectives": Triple Time
"Admirer and Admired": Beyond Cynicism
A Disoccurrence
My Darling
Catching Happiness
Oblivion and Self-Transcendence
Elegy
Celebration
Awkward Reverence
Notes
5: The Whitsun Weddings: Larkin at the Zenith
Serio-Comic Poems
"How Life Should Be": Advertisement Poems
Life’s Victims
"Something Hidden From Us": Alter Ego Poems
"When We Start To Die": Poems of Failure and Death
"What Will Survive Of Us"
"An Enormous Yes"
The End of Larkin’s Marriage Debate: 1963-4
Epithalamium
Notes
6: High Windows: The Quotidian and the Transcendent
1. "Screaming for More": Public Poems
2. Secondary Inspirations
3. The "Strength and Pain / Of Being Young"
4. "Uncontradicting Solitude"
5. Self-Satire
6. "Your Mum and Dad"
7. "Very Corny"
8. "The Eggs Unbroken"
9. "You Give For Ever"
10. Living
11. The Sad Song of Money
12. "It Didn’t Work For Them Or Me"
13. "O World, / Your Loves, Your Chances"
14. "Let It Always Be There"
Notes
7: Larkin After High Windows
"Furnace-Fear"
Betty Mackereth: The Love Poems of 1975-6
"It Never Worked For Me"
"We Should Be Kind / While There Is Still Time"
A Lyric Moment
Friendly Doggerels
Occasional Poems
The "Last" Poem
"It Is By Bridges That We Live"
Notes
8: Conclusion
Pessimism
Lyricism
From Personal to Universal
The Ordinary
Transcendence
Larkin’s Achievement
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.01.2025 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-032-59838-7 / 1032598387 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-59838-3 / 9781032598383 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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