Exploring the complex relationship between aesthetic experience and personal identity in Larkin's work, this book gives close and original readings of three major poems ('Here', 'Livings' and 'Aubade'), and two neglected but important themes (Larkin and the supernatural, Larkin and Flaubert).

Autorentext
M.W. ROWE was educated at Cranbrook School and Cambridge and York Universities. Before becoming Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, he taught at Pocklington School and Birkbeck College London. His previous books are: Philosophy and Literature: A Book of Essays (2004), and Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst: Virtuoso Violinist (2008).

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Preface Acknowledgements Note on References Introduction 'Here': Avoiding the Subject Larkin/Flaubert 'Livings': Aesthetic Intimations Larkin and the Creepy 'Aubade': Death and the Thought of Death Bibliography Index