High Windows

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High Windows is a 1974 poetry collection by Philip Larkin, often regarded as one of his most important and provocative works, marked by its candid treatment of modern life, sexuality, and mortality.

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High Windows canonical 2

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instanceOf book
poetry collection
author Philip Larkin
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
criticalReputation one of Philip Larkin's most important works
one of Philip Larkin's most provocative works
follows The Whitsun Weddings
genre poetry
hasForm dramatic monologue
lyric poem
narrative poem
hasPoem Annus Mirabilis
Cut Grass
Dublinesque
High Windows (poem)
Livings
Love Again
Money
Posterity
Sad Steps
Show Saturday
The Bridge
The Building
The Card-Players
linked to: The Card Players

The Explosion
The Old Fools
The School in August
The Trees
This Be The Verse
Vers de Société
language English
literaryMovement postwar British poetry
mainTheme aging
disillusionment
modern life
mortality
sexuality
notablePoem High Windows (poem)
The Explosion
The Old Fools
This Be The Verse
partOf Philip Larkin bibliography
poet Philip Larkin
precedes Collected Poems
publicationYear 1974
publisher Faber and Faber
setting contemporary England
style colloquial language
formal metrical control
ironic tone
targetAudience adult readers

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Philip Larkin notableWork High Windows
The Whitsun Weddings precedes High Windows