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Original Title:	High Windows
ISBN:	0571114512 (ISBN13: 9780571114511)
Edition Language:	English

High Windows Paperback | Pages: 42 pages

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Title	:	High Windows
Author	:	Philip Larkin
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 42 pages
Published	:	October 29th 1979 by Faber and Faber (first published 1974)
Categories	:	Poetry. European Literature. British Literature. Fiction

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Before I developed my own politics I loved Larkin, for his way with words and ability to tug the heartstrings with maudlin reflections. He's got some great lines. But I can't read him now; he looks down on people too much, he's too conventional, too conservative, too narrowly, comfortably English. Of course, most of the time he isn't comfortable, he's reflecting on time and death, its spectre at the back of everything, but that's quite facile, he just drops it in, cleverly, at the right moment to bring a lump to your unsuspecting throat. What I mean is, he's cosy in his values, even his conflicts are resolved by the emotion they reliably provoke. Since we all feel sad about death, it's made safe. I suppose that's why he's such a popular poet. He might be provocative, but there's nothing radical about him.

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Forget What DidStopping the diaryWas a stun to memory,Was a blank starting,One no longer cicatrizedBy such words, such actionsAs bleakened waking.I wanted them over,Hurried to burialAnd looked back onLike the wars and wintersMissing behind the windowsOf an opaque childhood.And the empty pages ?Should they ever be filledLet it be with observedCelestial recurrences,The day the flowers come,And when the birds go.*This Be The VerseThey fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they

I only knew the one with that 'word' in it until recently. I began teaching for a few hours per month in Hull and stayed at the Royal Station Hotel, featured in the book, so I thought I'd better read it. Good stuff. A curmudgeonly old bugger he may have been, but he could surely tinker with English like few others. Dig deeper, the 'F' word is not all he does.

High Windows is a collection of poetry by Philip Larkin, first published in 1974. It brings some of the poems Larkin is best known for, combining maudlin subjects with those of a more light-hearted and, indeed, humorous nature.Sexual intercourse beganIn nineteen sixty-three(Which was rather late for me)His writing has an ease to it that makes it a great introduction for those unfamiliar with poetry or with a fear of comprehending it. The sentences flow, with varying rhyming structures, and

Thematically, the poetry in High Windows is pretty bleak. I have a fairly strong image of Larkin, peering out of his library window, looking down and passers by, both figuratively and literally. He talks on death, the pains of being a child and also (his favourite subject) the drudgery of growing old. His frequent punctuations of these issues are so very English, coming as they do surrounded by descriptions of typically English country life - The Corn Exchange, the combine harvester, the

"Only the young can be alone freely.The time is shorter now for company,And sitting by a lamp more often bringsNot peace, but other things.Beyond the light stand failure and remorseWhispering Dear Warlock-Williams:Why, of course"- Vers de Société----P/s: We all should read This Be The Verse.

I have always enjoyed Philip Larkin's poetry so I decided to do my dissertation on him, and now, approaching the end of it, I love him even more. I can't really explain why I like him so much, but I do and he is, for me, the greatest poet of the modern world.

High Windows is a collection of poetry by Philip Larkin, first published in 1974. It brings some of the poems Larkin is best known for, combining maudlin subjects with those of a more light-hearted and, indeed, humorous nature.Sexual intercourse beganIn nineteen sixty-three(Which was rather late for me)His writing has an ease to it that makes it a great introduction for those unfamiliar with poetry or with a fear of comprehending it. The sentences flow, with varying rhyming structures, and