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Somewhere Becoming Rain - Collected Writings on Philip Larkin (Hardcover)
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Somewhere Becoming Rain - Collected Writings on Philip Larkin (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R357
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A love letter from one of the world’s best living writers to one of its
most cherished poets.
Clive James is 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 best living writers to one of its
most cherished poets.
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