Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940-85

Name: Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940-85
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Philip Larkin
ISBN: 9780571151974

Philip Larkin

17/02/1993
Faber & Faber

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Couverture de Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940-85 par Philip Larkin

Résumé

These letters throw light on a more complex figure than most readers will probably be expecting. Whether addressing his literary friends, who included Barbara Pym, Kinglsey Amis and John Betjeman, or those less prominently placed, Larkin shows himself to be a frank and generous letter-writer. Confessions, jokes, advice, scurrilities, pronouncements on literature and jazz, impromptu verses, published here for the first time, gossip and wisdom abound in these pages. They offer a view of a poet's progress from brash youth to rueful age, and in complementing the poems, provide a biographical document for the serious reader.