High Windows

Author(s): Philip Larkin

Poetry

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 Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless. - from "High Windows".

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Re-packaged in the much-loved Faber typographic look.

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 Library, and Required Writing: Miscellaneous Prose. He worked as a librarian at the University of Hull from 1955 until his death in 1985. He was the best-loved poet of his generation, and the recipient of innumerable honours, including the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, and the WHSmith Award.

General Fields

  • : 9780571260140
  • : Faber & Faber, Limited
  • : Faber & Faber, Limited
  • : 0.07
  • : February 2000
  • : 198mm X 126mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : June 2011
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 48
  • : 821.914
  • : English
  • : New Cover
  • : Paperback
  • : Philip Larkin