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Lädt ... Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Lovevon James Booth
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. I have thoroughly enjoyed this wonderful and academically focused biography of one of our best modern poets, Philip Larkin. This is a much more well rounded tome, which in comparison to Motions' rather sad and misjudged biography I read beforehand, this deserves my recommendation. However, Booth's style is to reject the poet's advice not to read his poems autobiographically and thus to read too much of the poet himself into the art. I beg to differ in that he created personae that reflected his moods and life. Larkin was well above this kind of thing, of course - and said so more than once. That isn't to say he could avoid some degree of self-revelation, such is the nature of art, but the poems are not diaries of his inner life - not as Booth so often reads, them, anyhow. Larkin created personae towards whom we could relate easily and deeply. Larkin's poems reveal starkly truthfully, using straightforward language that belies its complexity of meaning and style, the human condition. They act as revealing mirrors of our own souls and are as relevant today as when they were written: "‘Nothing, like something, happens anywhere". Zeige 2 von 2
[Booth] leans towards understanding rather than judgment, which seems to me to be the bigger part of the biographer's job. But it also gets him into several scrapes. Prestigeträchtige Auswahlen
In one of the most comprehensive pictures of the poet yet published, James Booth examines the people, the places and the chance encounters that influenced Larkin and shaped his poetry. From Larkin's early life, his academic studies and his aspirations as a novelist, an image emerges of a reserved and gentle man greatly affected by those close to him. Delving into his fluctuating relationships with Maeve Brennan and Monica Jones, two of the many women in Larkin's life, and analysing their varied effect on his work, Booth sheds fresh light on one of Britain's best loved poets. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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But the poems are un-dismissible. So as long as the poems persist, we will have to go back to the life that made them.
He comes out a bit better on this go-round. He is contextualized, though not excused. Less sensationalism, and more understanding.
My favorite single fact in the book: a lifelong bicyclist, he only got a car late in life. He chose an Audi, because the name reminded him of Auden. I have chosen cars for dumber reasons. ( )