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Author Steinberg, Gillian, 1973-

Title Philip Larkin and his audiences / Gillian Steinberg
Published Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 183 pages)
Contents Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Larkin and Audience -- Larkin's Voices€ -- Memory and Change -- Jazz and Audienceship -- Religion and Empathy -- Conclusion: Two Philips -- Notes -- Index
Larkin and Audience -- Larkin's Voices -- Memory and Change -- Jazz and Audienceship -- Religion and Empathy -- Conclusion: Two Philips
Summary Philip Larkin can consistently be found at the top of lists of England's best or favourite poet, yet he is widely regarded as a misanthropic, provincial recluse. Philip Larkin and his Audiences takes as its starting point the apparent disconnection between the public love for Larkin and the critical revulsion for what he has come to stand for. By carefully considering poems from Larkin's earliest publications through his last great work, 'Aubade', this volume argues that the most condemning approaches to Larkin misinterpret and oversimplify his literary game-playing and that his famously misanthropic nature is merely one insubstantial facet of a poet whose concern for audience is writ large in his poems and prose. This book argues against Larkin as either a simple or anti-social poet and instead presents evidence for his use of multiple voices, complex speakers, and constant attention to the desires of his readers
"Philip Larkin, one of England's greatest and most popular twentieth-century poets, is nonetheless widely regarded as a misanthropic, provincial recluse. This volume re-examines that critical view and argues that Larkin's poetry, far from demonstrating his misanthropy, highlights his profound awareness of and concern for readers"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Larkin, Philip
Larkin, Philip -- Criticism and interpretation
Larkin, Philip -- Psychology
SUBJECT Larkin, Philip fast
Subject Self-presentation in literature.
Contradiction in literature.
Authors and readers.
POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Authors and readers
Contradiction in literature
Psychology
Self-presentation in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780230251199
0230251196