The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin
Author:Philip Larkin,Professor Archie Burnett(Editor)
Paperback: 768 pages
Publisher: Faber & Faber; Main edition (4 Sept. 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0571240070
ISBN-13: 978-0571240074
Product Dimensions: 15.6 x 3.2 x 23.3 cm
内容简介
This entirely new edition brings together all of Philip Larkin's poems. In addition to those in Collected Poems (1988), and in the Early Poems and Juvenilia (2005), some unpublished pieces from Larkin's types cripts and workbooks are included, as well as verse (by turns scurrilous, satirical, affectionate, and sentimental) tucked away in his letters. The manus cript and printed sources have been scrutinized afresh; more detailed accounts than hitherto available of the sources of the text and of dates of composition are provided; and previous accounts of composition dates have been corrected. Variant wordings from Larkin's types cripts and the early printings are recorded.
For the first time, the 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. Due prominence is given to the poet's comments on his poems, which often outline the circumstances that gave rise to a poem, or state what he was trying to achieve. Larkin played down his literariness, but his poetry enrichingly alludes to and echoes the writings of many others; Archie Burnett's commentary establishes him as a more complex and more literary poet than many readers have suspected.
Review
"More often than any other English poet since the war, Larkin gave us lines that it is unlikely we'll be able to forget."" --"Ian Hamilton, "The Times "(London)
"Larkin is resolute, forthright, witty, and gloomy. This is the man who famously said that deprivation was for him what daffodils were for Wordsworth. Yet surely the results of this life, in the shape of his poems, are gifts, not deprivations."" --"Donald Hall, "The New Criterion"
Praise for "The Complete Poems"
"["The Complete Poems"] is a must-have for anyone who enjoys Larkin . . . Burnett's notes offer a fascinating, compendious "vade mecum "into Larkin's poetic world. Full of reassuring exactitude about variants, and extensive reference to the poet's own comments on the work, they are most stimulating of all when they cite buried sources . . . A lot of thought as well as an enormous amount of research has clearly gone into this [volume]."
--Fiona Sampson, "The Independent"
"[Archie] Burnett presents a very different picture of Larkin from the one by which he came to be known; one that is far more literary, and occasionally far more amusing. A reader can now trace Larkin's development from his allusive [early efforts] . . . to his more mature, better-known works." --"The Economist"
"Apart from representing an unprecedented Larkin poetic storehouse, the other glory of "The Complete Poems "is Burnett's dazzlingly detailed commentary . . . One of the chief pleasures . . . is tracing the emergence of one of English poetry's most distinctive poetic voices . . . A landmark volume, a wonder-book of verse by one of the art form's best practitioners of the last hundred years." --Terry Kelly, "The London Magazine"
Praise for Philip Larkin:
"More often than any other English poet since the war, Larkin gave us lines that it is unlikely we'll be able to forget."" --"Ian Hamilton, "The Times "(London)
"Larkin is resolute, forthright, witty, and gloomy. This is the man who famously said that deprivation was for him what daffodils were for Wordsworth. Yet surely the results of this life, in the shape of his poems, are gifts, not deprivations."" --"Donald Hall, "The New Criterion"
Book Des cription
The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin in an entirely new edition that brings together all of Larkin's poems in addition to some unpublished pieces.
作者简介
Archie Burnett is co-director (with Christopher Ricks) of the Editorial Institute and Professor of English at Boston University. He has edited the scholarly Oxford editions of The Poems of A. E. Housman (1997) and The Letters of A. E. Housman (2007).
Philip Larkin was born in 1922 and grew up in Coventry. In 1955 he became Librarian of the Brynmor Jones Library at the University of Hull, a post he held 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 W.H. Smith Award.
我必须承认,一开始我对“全集”这个概念是持怀疑态度的,总觉得这种囊括一生的作品难免会有一些凑数之作或者早年稚嫩的习作拉低整体水准。但事实证明,拉金的创作生涯是惊人的一致。从早期的冷峻,到中期对社会百态的讽刺,再到晚期对死亡的直面,那条清晰而坚韧的艺术脉络从未中断。他不像一些浪漫主义诗人那样高歌猛进,而是像一个沉默的观察者,站在生活的边缘,用冰冷的目光审视一切。这种完整性使得读者可以构建出一个完整的“拉金宇宙”,理解他如何一步步从一个局外人,最终成为了那个时代最深刻的“局内人”的记录者。这对于研究者来说是无价的宝藏。
评分这本书的装帧和印刷质量简直是文学爱好者的福音。我收到包裹的时候,就忍不住被它沉甸甸的质感和精美的封面设计所吸引。纸张的选择非常考究,那种略带米黄色的纹理,读起来既舒服又带着一种古典的美感,完全不像现在很多批量生产的书籍那样廉价。尤其是字体排版,简直是艺术品。清晰、疏密得当,让长篇的诗歌阅读体验变得异常愉悦,眼睛一点都不会感到疲劳。对于菲利普·拉金这样需要反复品味、细细咀嚼的诗人来说,一个优质的载体是多么重要啊!我甚至舍不得在书页上做任何标记,生怕破坏了这份完整。它不仅仅是一本诗集,更像是一件可以长期珍藏的艺术品,那种触手可及的触感,比电子阅读器带给我的感受要深刻和实在得多,完美地体现了“原版”应有的价值和诚意。
评分作为一名业余的诗歌爱好者,我发现自己最受不了的就是那些故作高深的现代派作品,读起来像在破解密码。而拉金的伟大之处就在于,他使用最朴素、最日常的词汇,却达到了最深刻的哲学高度。我记得有一首描写一次寻常的拜访的诗,开篇平淡无奇,但到最后几行,那种对人际关系中微妙的、难以言说的隔阂的刻画,直接击中了我内心最柔软的部分。你甚至不需要查阅任何背景资料,诗歌本身的力量就足以让你感同身受。这种直击人心的叙事力量,而非依靠晦涩的典故或华丽的辞藻,是我认为他能超越时代、持续散发魅力的核心原因。
评分这本书的翻译质量,哦,我的天,简直是灾难性的失败,如果这是中文译本的话我会毫不留情地打一星。但是,幸好这是英文原版,我才得以逃过一劫,并且可以专注于文本本身的震撼力。拉金的语言是如此的克制、精准,带着英式特有的那种冷峻的幽默和对日常琐碎的敏锐捕捉。翻开任何一页,都能感受到他笔下那种挥之不去的疏离感和对时间流逝的无力抗争。那些看似平淡的意象——灰色的天空、空旷的火车站、被遗忘的日常物品——在他手中立刻获得了永恒的重量。这种“反抒情”的诗歌风格,要求读者必须全神贯注,去解码字里行间那些被刻意压抑的情感,每一次重读,都有新的、更深层的绝望或顿悟浮现。
评分这本书的定价虽然不算便宜,但考虑到这是一部权威的原版全集,我完全认为物有所值,甚至可以说是物超所值。它提供的不仅仅是诗歌文本,更是一种阅读体验上的“原汁原味”的保证。对于想要真正理解英国战后文学精神的读者来说,绕过任何翻译层级,直接接触诗人最本真的声音,是至关重要的。我花了整整一个周末的时间,泡在咖啡馆里,伴随着这本书度过了一段极其充实且富有启发性的时光。它让我重新审视了日常生活中那些被我们习惯性忽略的细节,并意识到,伟大的诗歌,往往就藏在那些最不起眼的角落里,等待着像拉金这样的智者去揭示它们应有的重量。
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