Philip Larkin

This entirely new edition brings together all of Philip Larkin's poems. In addition to those that appear in Collected Poems (1988) and Early Poems and Juvenilia (2005), some unpublished pieces from Larkin's typescripts and workbooks are included, as well as verse--by turns scurrilous, satirical, affectionate, and sentimental--that had been tucked away in his letters. For the first time, Larkin's poems are given a comprehensive commentary. This draws...

Katherine es una joven refugiada que trabaja como bibliotecaria en una gris ciudad inglesa. Hastiada de su trabajo y de la vida en general, lo único que le hace mantener la esperanza es la perspectiva de un reencuentro con el que fue su primer amor. Así, en las horas previas a su cita, Katherine revivirá las idílicas vacaciones que supusieron para ella la pérdida de la inocencia y el paso a la edad adulta. Ahora Robin, el protagonista de aquel...

Philip Larkin met Monica Jones at University College Leicester in autumn 1946, when they were both twenty-four; he was the newly-appointed assistant librarian and she was an English lecturer. In 1950 Larkin moved to Belfast, and thence to Hull, while Monica remained in Leicester, becoming by turns his correspondent, lover and closest confidante, in a relationship which lasted over forty years until the poet's death in 1985. This remarkable unpublished...