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The complete poems of the most admired British poet of his generationThis entirely new edition brings together all of Philip Larkin's poems. In addition to those that appear in Collected Poems (1988) and Early Poems and Juvenilia (2005), some unpublished pieces from Larkin's typescripts and workbooks are included, as well as verse—by turns scurrilous, satirical, affectionate, and sentimental—that had been tucked away in his letters. For the first time, Larkin's poems are given a comprehensive commentary. This draws critically upon, and substantially extends, the accumulated scholarship on Larkin, and covers closely relevant historical contexts, persons and places, allusions and echoes, and linguistic usage. Prominence is given to the poet's comments on his own work, which often outline the circumstances that gave rise to a poem or state that he was trying to achieve. Larkin often played down his literariness, but his poetry enrichingly alludes to and echoes the writings of many others. Archie Burnett's commentary establishes Larkin as a more complex and more literary poet than many readers have suspected.

The definitive edition of the published prose of the Nobel laureate, the most important poet-critic of modern times.T. S. Eliot is regarded as the most important poet-critic of modern times, the twentieth century's man of letters whose reputation was forged not only on the strength of his verse but on the enduring influence of his critical writings.The Collected Prose presents those works that Eliot allowed to reach print in the order of their final revision or printing. Publishing across four volumes, the series aims to provide an authoritative and clean-text record of Eliot's approved texts and their revisions, beginning with his formative observations, written while he was at high school, and concluding in his final major opus, To Criticize the Critic, published in the months after his death.This first volume covers the years 1905 to 1928, a time of dramatic development for Eliot, as both a poet and a critic, that saw the publication of Prufrock and Other Observations, The Waste Land, and Journey of the Magi, and a gathering of his seminal early essays under the title The Sacred Wood. In his penetrating surveys of poetic form and the literary milieu of the day, he assesses the era's aging giants (Yeats, Swinburne, Henry James) and hails the arrival of its new generation (Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis). The volume also traces Eliot's deepening search for a meaningful response to the trauma of the Great War, and an exploration of religion that led to his confirmation in the Church of England in 1927.

The definitive edition of the published prose of the Nobel laureate, the most important poet-critic of modern times.The Collected Prose presents those works that T. S. Eliot allowed to reach print in the order of their final revision or printing. Publishing across four volumes, the series aims to provide an authoritative and clean-text record of Eliot's approved texts and their revisions, beginning with his formative observations, written while he was at high school, and concluding in his final major opus, To Criticize the Critic, published in the months after his death.This second volume spans 1929 to 1934, a period in which Eliot's poetry was maturing into the reflective verse of Animula, Ash Wednesday, and Marina. It was also a moment that confirmed his critical reputation with the publication of Selected Essays, reprinting and revising his most important essays on tradition and the individual talent, Hamlet, Marvell, and Dante, and culminating in the Harvard lectures that became The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism.

The definitive edition of the published prose of the Nobel laureate, the most important poet-critic of modern times.The Collected Prose presents those works that T. S. Eliot allowed to reach print in the order of their final revision or printing. Publishing across four volumes, the series aims to provide an authoritative and clean-text record of Eliot's approved texts and their revisions, beginning with his formative observations, written while he was at high school, and concluding in his final major opus, To Criticize the Critic, published in the months after his death.This third volume collects Eliot's prose from 1935 to 1950, when his works The Idea of a Christian Society and The Music of Poetry would engage the seminal grounds of his Four Quartets, while his Notes Towards the Definition of Culture would appear at the moment he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. It was a period of experimentation in form and genre, in which writings for the theater were taking center stage and he was composing, for the first time for children, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.

The definitive edition of the published prose of the Nobel laureate, the most important poet-critic of modern times.The Collected Prose presents those works that T. S. Eliot allowed to reach print in the order of their final revision or printing. Publishing across four volumes, the series aims to provide an authoritative and clean-text record of Eliot's approved texts and their revisions, beginning with his formative observations, written while he was at high school, and concluding in his final major opus, To Criticize the Critic, published in the months after his death.This fourth and final volume covers 1951 to 1966, a period of concluding productivity in Eliot's writing. Although his poetry was all but complete, his theatrical and critical work flourished through a decade that included such books as Poetry and Drama, The Frontiers of Criticism, and On Poetry and Poets.

"A sense of vital, actual experience is in fact wonderfully sustained in Delanty's verse in its notable linguistic energy, product of a distinctive fusion of a literary lexicon (even Latinate at times) with contemporary demotic, Cork argot, Irish language phrases, place names, craft cant and North American slang (baseball lingo in one poem, 'Tagging the Stealer'). The language of his verse functions indeed as the verbal equivalent of the printer's hellbox (subject of one of the finest of Delanty's poems), which the poet tells us 'was a container in which worn or broken type was thrown to be melted down and recast into new type'. For in Delanty's work a world in constant transition (the 'simultaneous going and comings of life') is realized in a vocabulary and variegated tonal register that displays language itself in the process of being re-made." — Terence Brown, "Greg Delanty and North America", Agenda, 2008. Following upon his Guggenheim Fellowship, Agenda devoted its Summer/Autumn issue in 2008 to the celebration of Greg Delanty's 50th birthday. In a sense it was a twain celebration, language being re-made and voice re-born by Atlantic Crossings. Ulster people are British and Irish people are Irish, and never the twain shall meet. An adaptation of Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.— Rudyard Kipling, 'Barrack-Room Ballads' (1892). But what, when the twain meet, of Greg Delanty and North America. Un-Gyve Press is pleased to publish this first Selected Delanty.