Begin Afresh

Auteur

Sisir Kumar Chatterjee is Associate Professor at Hooghly Mohsin College, Burdwan University, West Bengal. 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 Hardy's Mayor of Casterbridge. His novel Burning Burning came out in 2022.

Texte du rabat

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.

Résumé
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 (19221985). This volume will be of interest to students and researchers of Modernism, 20th Century Literature, Poetry, Language and Literature.

Contenu

1. Introduction 2. Early Poems to The North Ship (1938-1945) 3. From Novelist to Poet 4. The Less Deceived: Clear-eyed Realism and Demotic Poetics 5. The Whitsun Weddings: Larkin at the Zenith 6. High Windows: The Quotidian and the Transcendent 7. Larkin After High Windows 8. Conclusion