High Windows: Philip Larkin - Faber 90 (Faber & Faber 90th anniversary series) - Hardcover

Larkin, Philip

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0571352316 ISBN 13: 9780571352319

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2019

Synopsis

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.

This beautifully designed edition forms part of a series of ten titles celebrating Faber's publishing over the decades.

About this title

Book Description:

Faber 90th Anniversary edition of Larkin's 'perfectly-judged' final poetry collection

About the Author:

Philip Larkin was born in Coventry in 1922 and educated at King Henry VIII School, Coventry, and St John's College, Oxford. As well as his volumes of poems, which include The Less Deceived, The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows, he wrote two novels, Jill and A Girl in Winter, and two books of collected journalism: All What Jazz: A Record Diary and Required Writing: Miscellaneous Prose. He worked as a librarian at the University of Hull from 1955 until his death in 1985. He was the best-loved poet of his generation, and the recipient of innumerable honours, including the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and the WHSmith Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0571352316
• ISBN 13: 9780571352319
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 48