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Somewhere becoming rain : collected writings on Philip Larkin
- Title
- Somewhere becoming rain : collected writings on Philip Larkin / Clive James.
- Author
- James, Clive, 1939-2019
- Publication
- London : Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, 2019.
- ©2019
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 20-1409 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xii, 94 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
- Summary
- A love letter from one of the world's best living writers to one of its most cherished poets. Clive James is a life-long admirer of the work of Philip Larkin. Somewhere Becoming Rain gathers all of James's writing on this towering literary figure of the twentieth century, together with extra material now published for the first time. The greatness of Larkin's poetry continues to be obscured by the opprobrium attaching to his personal life and his private opinions. James writes about Larkin's poems, his novels, his jazz and literary criticism; he also considers the two major biographies, Larkin's letters and even his portrayal on stage in order to chart the extreme and, he argues, largely misguided equivocations about Larkin's reputation in the years since his death. Through this joyous and perceptive book, Larkin's genius is delineated and celebrated. James argues that Larkin's poems, adored by discriminating readers for over half a century, could only have been the product of his reticent, diffident, flawed, and all-too-human personality. Erudite and entertaining in equal measure, Somewhere Becoming Rain is a love letter from one of the world's best living writers to one of its most cherished poets.
- Alternative Title
- Collected writings on Philip Larkin
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Call Number
- JFD 20-1409
- ISBN
- 1529028825
- 9781529028829
- OCLC
- 1091296766
- Author
- James, Clive, 1939-2019, author.
- Title
- Somewhere becoming rain : collected writings on Philip Larkin / Clive James.
- Publisher
- London : Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- JFD 20-1409