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
內容簡介
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 In addition to those in Collected Poems (1988), and in the Early Poems and Juvenilia (2005), some unpublished pieces from Larkin's types cripts and workbooks are included, as well as verse (by turns scurrilous, satirical, affectionate, and sentimental) tucked away in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.
作者簡介
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.
我必須承認,一開始我對“全集”這個概念是持懷疑態度的,總覺得這種囊括一生的作品難免會有一些湊數之作或者早年稚嫩的習作拉低整體水準。但事實證明,拉金的創作生涯是驚人的一緻。從早期的冷峻,到中期對社會百態的諷刺,再到晚期對死亡的直麵,那條清晰而堅韌的藝術脈絡從未中斷。他不像一些浪漫主義詩人那樣高歌猛進,而是像一個沉默的觀察者,站在生活的邊緣,用冰冷的目光審視一切。這種完整性使得讀者可以構建齣一個完整的“拉金宇宙”,理解他如何一步步從一個局外人,最終成為瞭那個時代最深刻的“局內人”的記錄者。這對於研究者來說是無價的寶藏。
評分這本書的裝幀和印刷質量簡直是文學愛好者的福音。我收到包裹的時候,就忍不住被它沉甸甸的質感和精美的封麵設計所吸引。紙張的選擇非常考究,那種略帶米黃色的紋理,讀起來既舒服又帶著一種古典的美感,完全不像現在很多批量生産的書籍那樣廉價。尤其是字體排版,簡直是藝術品。清晰、疏密得當,讓長篇的詩歌閱讀體驗變得異常愉悅,眼睛一點都不會感到疲勞。對於菲利普·拉金這樣需要反復品味、細細咀嚼的詩人來說,一個優質的載體是多麼重要啊!我甚至捨不得在書頁上做任何標記,生怕破壞瞭這份完整。它不僅僅是一本詩集,更像是一件可以長期珍藏的藝術品,那種觸手可及的觸感,比電子閱讀器帶給我的感受要深刻和實在得多,完美地體現瞭“原版”應有的價值和誠意。
評分這本書的定價雖然不算便宜,但考慮到這是一部權威的原版全集,我完全認為物有所值,甚至可以說是物超所值。它提供的不僅僅是詩歌文本,更是一種閱讀體驗上的“原汁原味”的保證。對於想要真正理解英國戰後文學精神的讀者來說,繞過任何翻譯層級,直接接觸詩人最本真的聲音,是至關重要的。我花瞭整整一個周末的時間,泡在咖啡館裏,伴隨著這本書度過瞭一段極其充實且富有啓發性的時光。它讓我重新審視瞭日常生活中那些被我們習慣性忽略的細節,並意識到,偉大的詩歌,往往就藏在那些最不起眼的角落裏,等待著像拉金這樣的智者去揭示它們應有的重量。
評分作為一名業餘的詩歌愛好者,我發現自己最受不瞭的就是那些故作高深的現代派作品,讀起來像在破解密碼。而拉金的偉大之處就在於,他使用最樸素、最日常的詞匯,卻達到瞭最深刻的哲學高度。我記得有一首描寫一次尋常的拜訪的詩,開篇平淡無奇,但到最後幾行,那種對人際關係中微妙的、難以言說的隔閡的刻畫,直接擊中瞭我內心最柔軟的部分。你甚至不需要查閱任何背景資料,詩歌本身的力量就足以讓你感同身受。這種直擊人心的敘事力量,而非依靠晦澀的典故或華麗的辭藻,是我認為他能超越時代、持續散發魅力的核心原因。
評分這本書的翻譯質量,哦,我的天,簡直是災難性的失敗,如果這是中文譯本的話我會毫不留情地打一星。但是,幸好這是英文原版,我纔得以逃過一劫,並且可以專注於文本本身的震撼力。拉金的語言是如此的剋製、精準,帶著英式特有的那種冷峻的幽默和對日常瑣碎的敏銳捕捉。翻開任何一頁,都能感受到他筆下那種揮之不去的疏離感和對時間流逝的無力抗爭。那些看似平淡的意象——灰色的天空、空曠的火車站、被遺忘的日常物品——在他手中立刻獲得瞭永恒的重量。這種“反抒情”的詩歌風格,要求讀者必須全神貫注,去解碼字裏行間那些被刻意壓抑的情感,每一次重讀,都有新的、更深層的絕望或頓悟浮現。
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