An Uncommon Poet for the Common Man
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An Uncommon Poet for the Common Man

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  2. English
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An Uncommon Poet for the Common Man

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Year
2013
ISBN
9783110899290

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Introduction
  3. I. Style and Language
  4. Larkin’s Position in British Tradition
  5. Larkin and Modernism
  6. II. Hardy Themes
  7. The Self and Willful Nature
  8. Man as Nature
  9. Society as Nature
  10. Fate
  11. III. The Limitation and Implementation of Free Will
  12. The Search for Autonomy - “My Will’s Fulfilment”
  13. “What We ... Most Want to Do”
  14. IV. “Our Element is Time”
  15. “This is the Future”
  16. Time and Anxiety - “Come and Choose Wrong”
  17. The Past “Holds You Like a Heaven”
  18. V. The Disillusionment of Reality
  19. “Yet ... You’re Bound ... To Act/As If”
  20. Dramatic Monologue and Internal Dialogue
  21. VI. “Belief, Must Die”
  22. Reality Seen “Again in Different Terms”
  23. VII. Everyman’s Everyday: The Twentieth Century
  24. Generic Individualism
  25. VIII. Style: Manner and Method
  26. Compressed Diction and Metaphoric Form
  27. “Meaning and Meaning’s Rebuttal”
  28. Satire and Sympathy
  29. Reality as Symbol
  30. IX. From The North Ship to Now
  31. “All at once the Quarrel Sank”
  32. Larkin’s Attitude toward His Art
  33. An Audience of Everyman
  34. Bibliography
  35. Index