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Somewhere Becoming Rain - Collected Writings on Philip Larkin (Paperback)
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Somewhere Becoming Rain - Collected Writings on Philip Larkin (Paperback)
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'This is the finest critic of his generation on the best poet of
his lifetime' - The Times Clive James was a life-long admirer of
the work of Philip Larkin. Somewhere Becoming Rain gathers all of
James's writing on this towering literary figure of the twentieth
century, together with extra material now published for the first
time. The greatness of Larkin's poetry continues to be obscured by
the opprobrium attaching to his personal life and his private
opinions. James writes about Larkin's poems, his novels, his jazz
and literary criticism; he also considers the two major
biographies, Larkin's letters and even his portrayal on stage in
order to chart the extreme and, he argues, largely misguided
equivocations about Larkin's reputation in the years since his
death. Through this joyous and perceptive book, Larkin's genius is
delineated and celebrated. James argues that Larkin's poems, adored
by discriminating readers for over half a century, could only have
been the product of his reticent, diffident, flawed, and
all-too-human personality. Erudite and entertaining in equal
measure, Somewhere Becoming Rain is a love letter from one of the
world's most critically acclaimed writers to one of its most
cherished poets.
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