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An Uncommon Poet for the Common Man
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- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- I. Style and Language
- Larkin’s Position in British Tradition
- Larkin and Modernism
- II. Hardy Themes
- The Self and Willful Nature
- Man as Nature
- Society as Nature
- Fate
- III. The Limitation and Implementation of Free Will
- The Search for Autonomy - “My Will’s Fulfilment”
- “What We ... Most Want to Do”
- IV. “Our Element is Time”
- “This is the Future”
- Time and Anxiety - “Come and Choose Wrong”
- The Past “Holds You Like a Heaven”
- V. The Disillusionment of Reality
- “Yet ... You’re Bound ... To Act/As If”
- Dramatic Monologue and Internal Dialogue
- VI. “Belief, Must Die”
- Reality Seen “Again in Different Terms”
- VII. Everyman’s Everyday: The Twentieth Century
- Generic Individualism
- VIII. Style: Manner and Method
- Compressed Diction and Metaphoric Form
- “Meaning and Meaning’s Rebuttal”
- Satire and Sympathy
- Reality as Symbol
- IX. From The North Ship to Now
- “All at once the Quarrel Sank”
- Larkin’s Attitude toward His Art
- An Audience of Everyman
- Bibliography
- Index