Contemporary Poetry Review Articles in October, 2010

CPR Classic Readings: Philip Larkin’s “Broadcast”

By John Drexel October 20, 2010 February 9, 2011 Classic Reading, May 2010: Philip Larkin Special Issue, This Month

While far from being the most ambitious and successful poem in The Whitsun Weddings, “Broadcast” seems to me in many ways among the most essentially Larkinesque of Philip Larkin’s poems, and at the same time the most uncharacteristically romantic.… continue reading...

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CPR Classic Readings: Philip Larkin’s “Here”

By Gregory Dowling October 19, 2010 February 9, 2011 Classic Reading, May 2010: Philip Larkin Special Issue

Philip Larkin’s 1964 volume, The Whitsun Weddings, contains two poems describing train-journeys. One of them is the volume’s title-poem and is one of the most famous (and best-loved) poems in English since the Second World War; it has been said that with this work he brought a whole new English landscape into poetry.… continue reading...

Month: October 2010

CPR Classic Readings: Philip Larkin’s “Broadcast”

CPR Classic Readings: Philip Larkin’s “Here”

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