Such deliberate disguises : the art of Philip Larkin

Author(s)

Bibliographic Information

Such deliberate disguises : the art of Philip Larkin

Richard Palmer

Continuum, c2008

  • : pbk

Available at  / 3 libraries

Search this Book/Journal

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-171) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

"Jazz Writings" made Larkin's jazz criticism widely available - Palmer now offers the first extensive revaluation of Larkin's writing on jazz as well as covering his poetry and early work."Such Deliberate Disguises: The Art of Philip Larkin" argues that a true understanding of Philip Larkin as man and poet lies beyond his enduring public appeal and the variety of criticism that has recently been applied to his work.Richard Palmer suggests that the ostensible simplicity of Larkin's writing, which continues to attract so many readers to him, is deceptive, masking as it does one of the richest and most resonant of oeuvres in twentieth-century poetry. Penetrating the many masks of Larkin, the book sheds new and considerable light on the hitherto largely ignored spiritual significance of his work. Based upon close and scrupulous reading of the poems themselves, it draws upon insights gained from the history of art and the study of religion and myth as much as literary criticism and personal biography.It also brings long-overdue attention to what is seen to be perhaps the chief love, and operative aesthetic force, of Larkin's life: jazz. "Such Deliberate Disguises" is thus a major contribution, not just to Larkin studies, but to the wider cultural history of our times.

Table of Contents

  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • Part I: Larkin's Jazz: 'An Enormous Yes'
  • 1. Prologue: 'Useful to get That Learnt'
  • 2. All What Jazz: Larkin's Most Expensive Mistake
  • 3. 'Essential Beauty'
  • 4. Conclusion: 'The Natural Noise of Good'
  • Part II: Arrival: Larkin's Mature Verse
  • 5. Departures and Arrivals
  • 6. Larkin and Religion
  • 7. Fears, Antipathies & Aversions
  • Part III: Larkin the Librarian
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

by "Nielsen BookData"

Details

Page Top