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High Windows

by Philip Larkin

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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.

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The sun-comprehending glass,

And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows

Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless.

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Author: Philip Larkin (all their books in stock)
Genre: Works by individual poets: from c 1900 -, Poetry
Format: Paperback
Published: 1979
Pages: 42
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571114511

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