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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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRather than words comes the thought of high windows:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe sun-comprehending glass,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNothing, and is nowhere, and is endless.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom 'High Windows'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/philip-larkin-books\"\u003ePhilip Larkin\u003c\/a\u003e (all their books in stock)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1979\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 42\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Faber \u0026amp; Faber\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780571114511\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Poor Condition — £1.00","offer_id":47912203419825,"sku":"SB-0571114512-C4","price":1.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/0571114512.jpg?v=1789141491"},{"product_id":"required-writing-miscellaneous-pieces-1955-82","title":"Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces, 1955-82","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe reappearance of Philip Larkin's Required Writing will be welcomed by the late poet's many readers and admirers. The book's first two parts, \"Recollections\" and \"Interviews,\" provide autobiographical glimpses of the very private Larkin's childhood, his youth at Oxford, the genesis of his forty-year career as a librarian, and the influences that initially steered his poetry.The second half of the book reflects Larkin's literary standards and opinions in often witty and surprising, always beautifully wrought, essays and reviews. His subjects range from Emily Dickinson (were her first lines her best?) to the contemporary mystery novel. Required Writing concludes with a selection of pieces on jazz music.\"Larkin is a punctilious, honest critic. He prefers good clear writing to pretentious eyewash; he prefers tunes to discordant wailing; and he prefers home to abroad. Unlike the majority of critics, he is clear-sighted enough to say so.\" --A. N. Wilson, Sunday Telegraph\"I read the collection with growing excitement, agreement and admiration. It is the best contemporary account of the writer's true aims I have encountered.\" --John Mortimer, Sunday Times (London)\"Subtle, supple, craftily at ease, Required Writing is on a par with Larkin's poetry--which is just about as high as praise can go.\" --Clive James, Observer Philip Larkin was the author of poetry collections, including High Windows, The Whitsun Weddings, and The Less Deceived; a book of essays entitled All What Jazz: A Record Diary; and two novels, Jill, and A Girl in Winter, published early in his career. 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These correspondences help tell the story of how Larkin came to be the writer and the man he was: to his father Sydney, a 'conservative anarchist' and admirer of Hitler, who died relatively early in Larkin's life; to his timid, depressive mother Eva, who by contrast lived long, and whose final years were shadowed by dementia; and to his sister Kitty, the sparse surviving fragment of whose correspondence with her brother gives an enigmatic glimpse of a complex and intimate relationship. In particular, it was the years during which he and his sister looked after their mother that shaped the writer we know so well: a number of poems written over this time are for her, and the mood of pain, shadow and despondency that characterises his later verse draws its strength from his experience of the long, lonely years of her senility. 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