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Philip Larkin : The Poet's Plight by James Booth is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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<p><p>This book explores Larkin's distinctive place within the poetry of the twentieth century. It includes discussion of Larkin's response to the academic professionalization of poetry fostered by difficult Modernism; his diverse poetry of love (in relation to the responses of the poems' addressees); his original development of the genres of reflective elegy and self-elegy; the key metaphor of the domestic interior; history versus historicism; the poetry of place (here or Hull); and the profane and sacred (focusing on his animal poems).<p></p>
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- James Booth
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781403918345
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Memoir, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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