Larkin with Poetry: English Association Conference Papers / James Booth "Philip Larkin: Lyricism, Englishness and Postcoloniality" / Martin Lomax "Larkin with Women" / Stephen Regan "Larkin's Reputation" / Andrew Swarbrick "Larkin in the Sixth Form" / Sandy Brownjohn "Poetry in the Classroom: What Happens and What Should Happen" / Jill Pirrie "Risk and Certainty in the Poetry Classroom" / Judith Chernaik "Poems on the Underground"

Michael Baron (Editor) / James Booth "Philip Larkin: Lyricism, Englishness and Postcoloniality" / Martin Lomax "Larkin with Women" / Stephen Regan "Larkin's Reputation" / Andrew Swarbrick "Larkin in the Sixth Form" / Sandy Brownjohn "Poetry in the Classroom: What Happens and What Should Happen" / Jill Pirrie "Risk and Certainty in the Poetry Classroom" / Judith Chernaik "Poems on the Underground"

ISBN 10: 0900232188 / ISBN 13: 9780900232183

Published by The English Association, 1997

128 pages. James Booth "Philip Larkin: Lyricism, Englishness and Postcoloniality" / Martin Lomax "Larkin with Women" / Stephen Regan "Larkin's Reputation" / Andrew Swarbrick "Larkin in the Sixth Form" / Sandy Brownjohn "Poetry in the Classroom: What Happens and What Should Happen" / Jill Pirrie "Risk and Certainty in the Poetry Classroom" / Judith Chernaik "Poems on the Underground" (SL#81). Seller Inventory # SL10632

Synopsis:

'Philip Larkin': It may be that the row about Larkin following the publication of his letters in 1992 will be seen in the future as crystallising, momentarily, a number of issues about what society expects of poets and what it thinks poets are for. Rather than invite a re-run of the extreme positions taken in newspaper columns at the time, the organisers of this conference thought it more profitable to ask speakers to address ways of imagining new contexts, not ignoring the social stereotyping that Larkin's letters sometimes so vividly entertain, but acknowledging that the poems are complex, troubled and uneasy with their attitudes to life and art.The broad concern of 'Poetry in the Classroom, the Media and the World' was the way that poets and poetry are seen in society generally. How is poetry read and valued? How does it relate to other kinds of writing and to other subjects in the curriculum? Answers to these questions inevitably vary from poet to poet, but the evidence brought forward at the conference suggests that certain stereotypes persist and are encountered regularly by people who make it their business as writers or teachers to interest others in poetry.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Larkin with Poetry: English Association ...
Publisher: The English Association
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good