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20%OFFPhilip Larkin - High Windows - 9780571260140 - V9780571260140
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High Windows

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Description for High Windows Paperback. A collection, which includes some of Larkin's pieces ("The Old Fools", "This Be the Verse", "The Explosion", and the title poem) show the preoccupation with death and transience that is so typical of the poet. Num Pages: 48 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 8. Weight in Grams: 74.

Larkin's final collection of poems shows, as does all his best work, his ability to adapt contemporary speech rhythms and everyday vocabulary to subtle metrical patterns and poetic forms. Many of the poems in the collection, which includes some of his best-known pieces ('The Old Fools', 'This Be the Verse', 'The Explosion', and the title poem) show the preoccupation with death and transience that is so typical of the poet.

Rather than words comes the thought of high windows:
The sun-comprehending glass,

And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows
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Product Details

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
48
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
48
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571260140
SKU
V9780571260140
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99-99

About Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin was born in Coventry in 1922 and was educated at King Henry VIII School, Coventry, and St John's College, Oxford. As well as his volumes of poems, which include The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows, he wrote two novels, Jill and A Girl in Winter, and two books of collected journalism: All What Jazz: A Record ... Read more

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