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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Philip Larkin"”.
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The Material Imagination: Philip Larkin, D. H. Lawrence, and Thomas Hardy
… physicality and imagination in the poetry of Philip Larkin, focusing on different kinds of literal and imaginative space. I adduce two major influences, D. H. Lawrence and Thomas Hardy, who appealed to Larkin as a self-proclaimed ‘materialist’ (Letters to Monica, p. 15). He admired these …
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Poetry in process: The compositional practices of D.H. Lawrence, Dylan Thomas and Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin used the image of Winston Smith's blank notebook in George Orwell's 1984 to illustrate the excitement experienced by the writer faced with an as yet unwritten text. He explains that: the books the past has given us are printed; they are magnificent, but they are finite. Only the blank …
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Philip Larkin : a critical study of the poetry in relation to relevant conventions and traditions of twentieth-century writing
… rather than chronological: I attempt to treat Larkin's poetry in detail and as representatively as possible, but the discussion takes place in relation to dominant figures and movements in the poetic practice of the twentieth century. I have chosen to concentrate on Larkin's mature poetry, for …
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"The Fact of God": Form and Belief in British Modernist Poetry
… Ezra Pound, Mina Loy, T.S. Eliot, Basil Bunting, Philip Larkin, and Thom Gunn. Moving from Celtic mythos to Buddhist philosophy, Anglo-Catholic prayer to ancient Greek burial rites, I argue that spirituality and poetic experimentation were reciprocal influences: modernist experimentations in …
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Outfacing history: the artistic influences of W. B. Yeats and others on Seamus Heaney's Noughties poetry
… Hopkins, T.S. Eliot, Patrick Kavanagh, and Philip Larkin. As they appear in the collections examined, the impact of these figures on the central Heaney–Yeats relationship is also discussed. These poets are ultimately useful for Heaney in answering his central artistic questions of how a poet …
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'I don't really notice where I live' : Philip Larkin's literary nationalities
… playfulness John Haffenden implicitly accuses Philip Larkin of “narrow-mindedness” and “cultural chauvinism” in his well-documented interview from 1981. Philip Larkin replies with two counter-questions: “But honestly, how far can one really assimilate literature in another language? In the …