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This edition of Larkin's poems presents his four published books
"The North Ship", "The Less Deceived", "The Whitsun Weddings" and
"High Windows" in their original sequence. The text also includes
an appendix of poems that Larkin published in other places, from
his juvenilia to his final years. Preserving everything that he
published in his lifetime, this collection of poems returns readers
to the book Larkin might have intended if he had lived.
Anthony Thwaite's new collection is both moving and funny, elegiac
and playful. The personal poems span a life-time as Thwaite relives
moments of childhood, or reassesses his role as son to a dying
mother, or gets told how to behave by his grandson. Elsewhere he
laments his old cat and conjures up a Sumerian Anthology of poets.
The principal concern of the collection is what lasts and what
vanishes: dreams, memories, people and objects. In this quest, he
takes us with him to Italy, Siberia and Syria, and is haunted by
the mystery of places 'where there are no words'. It is, however,
the very craft of his finely wrought poetry and its sudden moments
of sheer beauty which make palpable for the reader 'the shape of
the invisible soul'.
This is the most authoritative and up to date survey of
contemporary British poetry 1960-1995. It is the third version but
second edition published by Longman of a successful survey that
first appeared 30 years ago, and provides a succinct and accessible
overview of British poets, movements and themes, ideal for English
courses and the general reader alike.
Philip Larkin (1922-1985) was the best-loved poet of his
generation, and the recipient of innumerable honours, including the
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, and the W H Smith Award. In Larkin
at Sixty, a tribute to him on his sixtieth birthday, twenty writers
came together to celebrate the man and the poet with specially
written pieces. Some of them are reminiscences, some look at
aspects of his professional life as librarian, some consider his
taste as it revealed itself in his writings on jazz and in his
editing of the Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse. The
relationship between his novels and his poems is examined, and
several essays explore the poems themselves. Three poets contribute
hitherto unpublished poems. Together, all these illuminate with
affection and insight the work, the man behind the work, and the
appeal of both. The editor, Anthony Thwaite, edited Larkin's
Collected Poems, Selected Letters and Further Requirements, and
became one of Larkin's chosen literary executors
This survey of contemporary British poetry from 1960-1995 provides
a succinct overview of British poets, movements and themes, ideal
for English courses and the general reader alike. This edition has
been revised to include poets who have recently come into
prominence, as well as considering influences from abroad and the
effect of other translations, such as those from Eastern European
poets.
Philip Larkin met Monica Jones at University College Leicester in
autumn 1946, when they were both twenty-four; he was the
newly-appointed assistant librarian and she was an English
lecturer. In 1950 Larkin moved to Belfast, and thence to Hull,
while Monica remained in Leicester, becoming by turns his
correspondent, lover and closest confidante, in a relationship
which lasted over forty years until the poet's death in 1985. This
remarkable unpublished correspondence only came to light after
Monica Jones's death in 2001, and consists of nearly two thousand
letters, postcards and telegrams, which chronicle - day by day,
sometimes hour by hour - every aspect of Larkin's life and the
convolutions of their relationship.
One of the best-known and best-loved poets of the English-speaking
world, Philip Larkin had only a small number of poems published
during his lifetime. "Collected Poems" brings together not only all
his books--"The North Ship," "The Less Deceived," "The Whitsun
Weddings," and "High Windows-"-but also his uncollected poems from
1940 to 1984.
This new edition reflects Larkin's own ordering for his poems and
is the first collection to present the body of his work with the
organization he preferred. Preserving everything he published in
his lifetime, the new "Collected Poems" is an indispensable
contribution to the legacy of an icon of twentieth-century
poetry.
The definitive anthology-unrivalled in scope and content
A millennium and a half old, Japan's poetry is widely known and
loved around the world. Covering the earliest primitive period
through the Nara, Heian, Kamakura, Muramachi, and Edo periods,
right up to the modern day, "The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse"
contains more than 700 poems, including short forms such as tanka
and haiku, as well as folk-poetry, and more complex verse with
which Western readers may be less familiar. Whether read for
pleasure or scholarship, this accessible translation displays the
full wit, sorrow, and subtlety of Japanese poetry and will remain
the authoritative volume for years to come.
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Penelope Lively; Introduction by Anthony Thwaite
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Winner of the Booker Prize, Penelope Lively's Moon Tiger is the
tale of a historian confronting her own, personal history,
unearthing the passions and pains that have defined her life. This
Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Anthony
Thwaite. Claudia Hampton, a beautiful, famous writer, lies dying in
hospital. But, as the nurses tend to her with quiet condescension,
she is plotting her greatest work: 'a history of the world ... and
in the process, my own'. Gradually she re-creates the rich mosaic
of her life and times, conjuring up those she has known. There is
Gordon, her adored brother; Jasper, the charming, untrustworthy
lover and father of Lisa, her cool, conventional daughter; and Tom,
her one great love, both found and lost in wartime Egypt. Penelope
Lively's Booker Prize-winning novel weaves an exquisite mesh of
memories, flashbacks and shifting voices, in a haunting story of
loss and desire. Penelope Lively (b. 1933) was born in Cairo. She
has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize; once in 1977 for
her first novel, The Road to Lichfield, and again in 1984 for
According to Mark. She later won the 1987 Booker Prize for her
highly acclaimed novel Moon Tiger. Her novels include Passing On,
City of the Mind, Cleopatra's Sister and Heat Wave, and many are
published by Penguin. If you enjoyed Moon Tiger, you might like
L.P. Hartley's The Go-Between, also available in Penguin Modern
Classics. 'It's a fine, intelligent piece of work, the kind that
Leaves its traces in the air long after you've put it away' Anne
Tyler 'Funny, thoughtful ... a perfect example of the Lively art'
Mark Lawson, Independent
Philip Larkin's Required Writing, a selection from his
miscellaneous prose from 1953-82, was highly praised and enjoyed
when it appeared in 1983. Further Requirements gathers together
many other interviews, broadcasts, statements and reviews. Some of
them date from the period after he had chosen the contents of
Required Writing; others come from obscure publications, including
some early pieces. This second edition of Further Requirements
includes two more essays by Larkin: 'Operation Manuscript' and his
Introduction to Earth Memories by Llewelyn Powys.
These letters throw light on a more complex figure than most
readers will probably be expecting. Whether addressing his literary
friends, who included Barbara Pym, Kingsley Amis and John Betjeman,
or those less prominently placed, Larkin shows himself to be a
frank and generous letter-writer. Confessions, jokes, advice,
scurrilities, pronouncements on literature and jazz, impromptu
verses, published here for the first time, gossip and wisdom abound
in these pages. They offer a view of a poet's progress from brash
youth to rueful age, and in complementing the poems, provide a
biographical document for the serious reader.
R. S. Thomas was a major figure in the landscape of contemporary
poetry - attested by his Nobel Prize for Literature nomination. His
poetry, coloured by personal experience of rural Wales, is stark
but passionate.
Now that he is eighty-four, Anthony Thwaite says that Going Out is
likely to be the last book of poems he publishes in his lifetime,
and that the title is apt. But the words are wistful, even playful,
and that is true of some of the book's contents. The poems range
over times and places, commemorating friends (especially the poet
Peter Porter), and draw on memories, hard-won faith,
self-questioning. As Michael Frayn has put it, Thwaite 'writes with
simplicity and precision about difficult and ambiguous things, the
complexity and unceasingness of the world, the vastness and
richness of the past, the elusiveness of the present - and the
heroic persistence of our efforts to fix some trace of all this.'
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