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The North Ship
eBook
ISBN/EAN: 9780571263233
Umbreit-Nr.: 4926241
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 56 S., 0.21 MB
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 04.04.2013
Auflage: 1/2013
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Format: EPUB
DRM: Digitales Wasserzeichen
- Zusatztext
- The North Ship, Philip Larkin's earliest volume of verse, was first published in August 1945. The introduction, by Larkin himself, explains the circumstances of its publication and the influences which shaped its contents.
- Autorenportrait
- Philip Larkin was born in Coventry in 1922 and was educated at King Henry VIII School, Coventry, and St John's College, Oxford. As well as his volumes of poems, which include The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows, he wrote two novels, Jilland A Girl in Winter, and two books of collected journalism: All What Jazz: A Record Library, and Required Writing: Miscellaneous Prose. He worked as a librarian at the University of Hull from 1955 until his death in 1985. He was the best-loved poet of his generation, and the recipient of innumerable honours, including the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, and the WHSmith Award.