PHILIP LARKIN HIGH WINDOWS RARE LEGENDARY ARGO LP PLP 1202

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PHILIP LARKIN - HIGH WINDOWS        Notes by  CLIVE JAMES

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Disc plays as ex+ ( a couple of slight tics) Non sounding mark on track one. Absolutely nothing serious.
The sleeve is vg+ see photos for condition.



 Philip Larkin was born in Coventry in 1922 and died in Hull in 1985. He worked in university libraries
for most of his life, holding the post of chief librarian at the University of Hull from 1955.
He also wrote poetry of a very high quality and is generally acknowledged as being one
 of Britain's greatest poets of the 20th century.

He had a complex personality and outlook on life, in which self-deprecation, pessimism
and mockery combined with more positive and hopeful attitudes. In a 1972 radio interview
 he stated that "Somebody once said that the great thing is not to be different from other people
 but to be different from yourself", and many "different people" can be discerned in Larkin's poems,
 sometimes even within the same poem.

"High Windows" is a case in point. It is the title poem of his third (and final) collection,
published in 1974. He wrote relatively little poetry after this time, certainly not enough for
 another collection, and so the poems in this book can be seen as being as close to the "definitive" Larkin
as is possible, given that it is not easy to arrive at a consensus as to what that definition might be.

The poem comprises five four-line stanzas in which there is rhyming of a sort; the first two stanzas
 rhyme (or half-rhyme) the second and fourth lines, but the other three have an ABAB pattern.
 However, the rhyming is almost casual (with a number of  half-rhymes such as "back/dark" and "glass/endless")
and is not relied upon to provide the poem's structure.

In terms of grammar, the poem consists of four sentences of varying lengths,
split between the stanzas such that the final lines of each of the first four stanzas
 are continuous with the first lines of the next. The poem therefore reads like a single thought
 process, starting with a bold (and possibly shocking) statement and ending with something much more profound.

 It runs as follows:

When I see a couple of kids
And guess he's f*king her and she's
Taking pills or wearing a diaphragm,
I know this is paradise

It's hard not to listen to "Homage to a Government" and not appreciate its
relevance to modern day Iraq or Afghanistan. Great poetry is timeless as you will find here.






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like repetitive tics.

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