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Philip Larkin’s Poetics
Theory and Practice of an English Post-war Poet
Series: - Costerus New Series Online, Volume: 214
- Costerus New Series, Volume: 214
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In Philip Larkin’s Poetics István D. Rácz offers a reading of Larkin’s credo that systematically discusses the links between his principles and practice – a discussion notably absent up to now from the many studies of this outstanding post-1945 British poet. While Larkin claimed that his poetry did not need any explication, Rácz argues that a careful reading reveals a coherent poetics. This thoroughgoing discussion of the oeuvre provides ample evidence that Larkin’s poetry of interacting opposites creates a logically organized system based on principles to be found in his poetics.
ISTVÁN D. RÁCZ is a Professor of English at the University of Debrecen and Director of the Institute of English and American Studies at UD. He has published books and studies on post-1945 British poetry, translation studies and romantic poetry.
"Philip Larkin’s Poetics by István D. Rácz delivers what is promised in the book’s subtitle: not only is it a synthesis of the theoretical approaches adopted in Larkin studies but it is a useful collection of sensitive close readings of poems central to the Larkin canon contextualized in twentieth-century English poetry and provides good practical criticism to be used in the classroom." - Attila Dósa, University of Miskolc HU in Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, Vol. 24 No.1 2018 pp. 223-226
Introduction: Larkin and Poetics
Larkin’s Principles of Writing Poetry
Chapter 1 Experience and the Tradition of “the English Line”
Chapter 2 Beauty, Truth and Deception:
The Art of Choosing
Chapter 3 Audenesque Larkin: Non-literary Literature
Chapter 4 Character, Mask and Monologue
Chapter 5 Hardyesque Larkin: Pain in Agnostic Narratives
Chapter 6 Language, Death and Transcendence
Writing about Time
Chapter 7 Time as Prison and the Chances of Escape
Chapter 8 Aging
Chapter 9 Time as Space
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Larkin’s Principles of Writing Poetry
Chapter 1 Experience and the Tradition of “the English Line”
Chapter 2 Beauty, Truth and Deception:
The Art of Choosing
Chapter 3 Audenesque Larkin: Non-literary Literature
Chapter 4 Character, Mask and Monologue
Chapter 5 Hardyesque Larkin: Pain in Agnostic Narratives
Chapter 6 Language, Death and Transcendence
Writing about Time
Chapter 7 Time as Prison and the Chances of Escape
Chapter 8 Aging
Chapter 9 Time as Space
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Those interested in post-1945 British poetry, in Philip Larkin studies and the general problems of poetics, particularly academics, undergaduate and postgraduate students of English Literature.