{"product_id":"complete-poems-of-philip-larkin","title":"Complete Poems Of Philip Larkin","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis entirely new edition brings together all of Philip Larkin''s poems.  In addition to those in \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (1988), and in the \u003ci\u003eEarly  Poems and Juvenilia\u003c\/i\u003e (2005), some unpublished pieces from Larkin''s  typescripts and workbooks are included, as well as verse (by turns  scurrilous, satirical, affectionate, and sentimental) tucked away in his  letters. The manuscript and printed sources have been scrutinized  afresh; more detailed accounts than hitherto available of the sources of  the text and of dates of composition are provided; and previous  accounts of composition dates have been corrected. Variant wordings from  Larkin''s typescripts and the early printings are recorded.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor the first time, the poems are given a comprehensive commentary. This  draws critically upon, and substantially extends, the accumulated  scholarship on Larkin, and covers closely relevant historical contexts,  persons and places, allusions and echoes, and linguistic usage. Due  prominence is given to the poet''s comments on his poems, which often  outline the circumstances that gave rise to a poem, or state what he was  trying to achieve. Larkin played down his literariness, but his poetry  enrichingly alludes to and echoes the writings of many others; Archie  Burnett''s commentary establishes him as a more complex and more literary  poet than many readers have suspected.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57307210908030,"sku":"NW9780571240074","price":18.42,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780571240074.jpg?v=1778245592","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/complete-poems-of-philip-larkin","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}