Description: Since his death in 1985, Philip Larkin, highly regarded as England's finest post-war poet, has become the subject of fierce debate. The publication of his Collected Poems, his letters, and his official biography have led to a radical reassessment of one of England's most popular and elusive writers. Focusing on Larkin's individually published Volumes, the book traces clearly the development of his poetic achievement. The opening chapters examine Larkin's earliest work and later chapters draw on a wide range of poetry to establish his central preoccupations and techniques. Arguing engagingly and setting close analyses of individual poems within a theoretical context, Andrew Swarbrick offers a fresh and timely reappraisal of one of this century's major writers.

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