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In Philip Larkin's Poetics István D. Rácz offers a reading of Larkin's credo that systematically discusses the links between his principles and practice - a discussion notably absent up to now from the many studies of this outstanding post-1945 British poet. While Larkin claimed that his poetry did not need any explication, Rácz argues that a careful reading reveals a coherent poetics. This thoroughgoing discussion of the oeuvre provides ample evidence that Larkin's poetry of interacting opposites creates a logically organized system based on principles to be found in his poetics.
Contents
Introduction: Larkin and Poetics
Larkin's Principles of Writing Poetry
Chapter 1 Experience and the Tradition of "the English Line"
Chapter 2 Beauty, Truth and Deception:
The Art of Choosing
Chapter 3 Audenesque Larkin: Non-literary Literature
Chapter 4 Character, Mask and Monologue
Chapter 5 Hardyesque Larkin: Pain in Agnostic Narratives
Chapter 6 Language, Death and Transcendence
Writing about Time
Chapter 7 Time as Prison and the Chances of Escape
Chapter 8 Aging
Chapter 9 Time as Space
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
