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Anonymous Mon Jul 6 08:17:26 2015 No.6786459 [Reply] [Original]

Which is best?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 08:47:41 2015 No.6786559 ...You've read Larkin, surely, /lit/?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 08:59:13 2015 No.6786598 Yes I've read all his poems. Buy his greatest hits, it's the same price as any other of his books. Delete this thread.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 09:05:21 2015 No.6786612 >>6786598 I already have all of them. I just want to discuss which we think is the best collection High Windows, imo. Dublinesque and The Building are unbelievable

Deep&Edgy !!BfzNblz4cXS Mon Jul 6 09:08:37 2015 No.6786619
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>They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
>They may not mean to, but they do.
>They fill you with the faults they had
>And add some extra, just for you.

>But they were fucked up in their turn
>By fools in old-style hats and coats,
>Who half the time were soppy-stern
>And half at one another’s throats.

>Man hands on misery to man.
>It deepens like a coastal shelf.
>Get out as early as you can,
>And don’t have any kids yourself.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 09:26:09 2015 No.6786680 >>6786619 I like how he could write stuff like this, and then stuff like Cut Grass.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 10:46:13 2015 No.6786852 >>6786459 The Whitsun Weddings.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 11:00:18 2015 No.6786885 your mum lol

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 11:37:10 2015 No.6786959 >>6786612 >unbelievable Stop using this word

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 11:41:14 2015 No.6786974 >>6786959 No. If I think something is really good I have a feeling of disbelief. >>6786852 Mr Bleaney is the best one there. Home is so Sad a close second.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 11:53:48 2015 No.6787009 larkin is a joke

Anonymous Mon Jul 6 12:13:52 2015 No.6787071

>>6786459
>>6786612

I have to agree with High Windows, though Whitsun Weddings is sort of his "greatest hits." His voice really matured in that collection imo.

High Windows has Larkin overcoming his cynicism, transcending it, in the title poem "High Windows," and "The Trees," "Cut Grass" "The Explosion," etc, etc

The positive aspects of his subjects in these poems counterbalance his criticism of them, or, like in High Windows, or "The Old Fools," you get a genuine sadness. In poems like "This Be the Verse" or "Verse de Society" you get a jokishness, rather than a sophmoric sort of sneer.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 12:17:53 2015 No.6787084 >>6786459 Whitsun. Just buy a full volume tho.

Anonymous Mon Jul 6 13:13:32 2015 No.6787251

>>6787009
Have you wrote a famous, critically lauded collection of poetry, anon?

>>6787071
In High Windows he seemed to embrace a sense of mystery and ambiguity that he hadn't had so much on Whitsun. "Livings", "The Trees", "Solar", "The Explosion", "Forget What Did"

My favourite poem of his is probably from The Less Deceived, although that's my least favourite collection. "Spring". Its properly bitter-sweet

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