Titlebook: Larkin’s Travelling Spirit; The Place, Space and Alex Howard Book 2020 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerlan

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Introduction,ues that ‘place’, as a critical term, comes freighted with a large back-catalogue of attendant literary concerns. Larkin, I claim, experimented assiduously with place and space poetics: by priming our critical approach to their presence, we see an array of new commitments in his work. His juvenilia

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,A ‘Modern’ Flâneur: Larkin’s Journeys and the Travelling Spirit,f whom are characterised by the very act of travel they relate. It posits that, in many instances, Larkin was indebted to Baudelaire’s .a character whose leisurely observation of his surrounding environment is arguably as important as his distinctively louche nature. Larkin’s appeal to the . reveals

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War and Weather: Memory, Symbol and Estrangement in ,e Lind, its immigrant protagonist, focusing particularly on the former’s tendency to derive emotional reciprocity with place in the absence of true acceptance from her English hosts. It posits that, in so doing. Larkin recruits the literary . in one of its earliest guises—that of a pernicious, indwe

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Staring Death in the Eye: Deictics, Spacing and Growing Old in , afterlife, it is principally focussed on how Larkin poeticises the voyage . death. It posits that, at the zenith of such existential meditation, Larkin flirts with the notion of Pascal’s Wager (‘Compline’), writes himself a eulogy in which his past sins are exonerated (‘Sympathy in White Major’), a

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Book 2020rom his canonical verse to his lesser-known juvenilia and dream diaries, this title unveils a new Larkin; a man whose religious, political and ontological affiliations are often as wide-ranging and experimental as the very form and symbolic licence used to express them. Whether exploring Larkin’s fo

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War and Weather: Memory, Symbol and Estrangement in ,er from the melee of war. It opines that ‘The Winter Palace’—an uncollected poem of Larkin’s—revisits these emotional predicaments many years later, thus revealing a lasting investment in the themes of memory, winter and coldness.