Sisir Kumar Chatterjee

Begin Afresh (eBook, ePUB)

The Evolution of Philip Larkin's Poetry

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Produktbeschreibung

Begin Afresh: The Evolution of Philip Larkin's Poetry offers incisive, insightful, and yet lucid analyses of all the individual poems contained in the four major collections of Larkin (1922-1985).

This volume will be of interest to students and researchers of Modernism, 20th Century Literature, Poetry, Language and Literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040311523
• Artikelnr.: 73102909

Autorenporträt

Sisir Kumar Chatterjee is Associate Professor at Hooghly Mohsin College, Burdwan University, West Bengal, India. His first monograph on Philip Larkin was published in 2006 and he has published extensively on fiction, non-fiction and poetry. He co-edited The World of Agha Shahid Ali (2021) and is currently co-editing Arundhati Roy: Political, Ethical and Aesthetic Perspectives and a book on Thomas Hardy's Mayor of Casterbridge. His novel Burning Burning was published in 2022.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Foreword x
Acknowledgements xii
Abbreviations xiv
1 Introduction 1
1 "I Remember, I Remember" 1
2 Larkin's Status as a Poet 2
3 Critical Controversies 4
4 The Evolution of Larkin's Poetry 9
5 "Begin Afresh": A Re-Evaluation 13
6 Methodology 14
Notes 15
2 Early Poems to The North Ship (1938-1945) 17
1 Juvenile Poems 17
2 Brunette Coleman Poems: Sugar and Spice 22
3 The North Ship: Poeticisms, Rhetorical Hi-Jinks, and Innovative Imitation
27
(i) A Fortuitous First Volume 27
(ii) "Poetical" Poems 29
(iii) "Yeats-y" Poems 33
(iv) Audenesque Poems 36
(v) Gendered Poems 38
(vi) Eros-Thanatos Poems 42
(vii) Carpe diem 43
(viii) Purist Aestheticism 44
(ix) Poems of Poetic Vocation 46
Notes 48
3 From Novelist to Poet 50
1 The Novels and Débats 50
2 Biographical Pressures 62
3 Crisis: In the Grip of Light and XX Poems 64
4 Britain's Political Transition 71
5 "The Movement" 73
6 Anti-Romanticism and Anti-Modernism 79
7 Religion, Consumerism, "Permissive Society" and "Race Relations" 84
Notes 87
4 The Less Deceived: "Clear-eyed Realism" and Demotic Poetics 89
1 Deceptions and Illusions 89
2 "Come and Choose Wrong": Choice 94
3 "Threadbare Perspectives": Triple Time 99
4 "Admirer and Admired": Beyond Cynicism 107
5 A Disoccurrence 110
6 My Darling 111
7 Catching Happiness 112
8 Oblivion and Self-Transcendence 113
9 Elegy 116
10 Celebration 118
11 Awkward Reverence 121
Notes 125
5 The Whitsun Weddings: Larkin at the Zenith 127
1 Serio-Comic Poems 127
2 "How Life Should Be": Advertisement Poems 135
3 Life's Victims 140
4 "Something Hidden From Us": Alter Ego Poems 144
5 "When We Start To Die": Poems of Failure and Death 150
6 "What Will Survive Of Us" 155
7 "An Enormous Yes" 162
8 The End of Larkin's Marriage Debate: 1963-1964 169
9 Epithalamium 170
Notes 176
6 High Windows: The Quotidian and the Transcendent 179
1 "Screaming for More": Public Poems 179
2 Secondary Inspirations 183
3 The "Strength and Pain / Of Being Young" 187
4 "Uncontradicting Solitude" 191
5 Self-Satire 194
6 "Your Mum and Dad" 197
7 "Very Corny" 198
8 "The Eggs Unbroken" 200
9 "You Give For Ever" 201
10 Living 202
11 The Sad Song of Money 208
12 "It Didn't Work For Them Or Me" 210
13 "O World, / Your Loves, Your Chances" 211
14 "Let It Always Be There" 218
Notes 223
7 Larkin After High Windows 227
1 "Furnace-Fear" 227
2 Betty Mackereth: The Love Poems of 1975-1976 233
3 "It Never Worked For Me" 241
4 "We Should Be Kind / While There Is Still Time" 244
5 A Lyric Moment 246
6 Friendly Doggerels 246
7 Occasional Poems 247
8 The "Last" Poem 249
9 "It Is By Bridges That We Live" 250
Notes 256
8 Conclusion 257
1 Pessimism 257
2 Lyricism 260
3 From Personal to Universal 261
4 The Ordinary 264
5 Transcendence 265
6 Larkin's Achievement 270
Notes 271
Bibliography
Index