Philip Larkin

Following the recent publication of Philip Larkin''s Collected Poems , this study draws on a previously unavailable range of work extending from 1938 to 1983. In the course of its survey, the book exposes the limitations of narrowly thematic and formalist criticism, but it treats with equal scepticism the fashionable tendency to regard Larkin as a ''symbolist'' poet. In his appraisal Stephen Regan argues strongly for the importance of reading the poems historically and contextually. The emphasis here is on the post-war cultural milieu of Larkin''s work and its complex engagement with questions of individual freedom and social commitment.>

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART 1 SURVEY
Philip Larkin and the Movement Gentility in English Poetry
Thematic Approaches
Linguistic Approaches
Modernism and Symbolism
PART 2 APPRAISAL
Historicist Criticism
PART 3 REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Stephen Regan

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Stephen Regan
• Mitarbeit: Stephe Regan (Herausgeber), Stephen Regan (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Macmillan
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 03.09.1997
• EAN: 9780333604847
• ISBN: 978-0-333-60484-7
• Seiten: 265
• Serien: New Casebooks; New Casebooks S; New Casebooks
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft