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High Windows

Philip Larkin author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Faber & Faber

Published:2nd Apr '15

Should be back in stock very soon

High Windows cover

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

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.

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'

ISBN: 9780571260140

Dimensions: 5mm x 130mm x 200mm

Weight: 75g

48 pages

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