Review: High Windows
User Review - Jaimie - GoodreadsEven though I quite liked a few of the poems in this collection, I found the overall tone to be rather soul-less. Larkin focuses on describing small, everyday scenarios, but the reader can tell that ... Read full review
Review: High Windows
User Review - Rob Blackmore - GoodreadsPhilip Larkin's third and final anthology of his poems contains some fine and thoughtful verse. As it's Larkin, this is never going to be a barrel of laughs, but there is humour (albeit dry and ... Read full review
Review: High Windows
User Review - Kasandra - GoodreadsA must-have, this was like reading an amazingly detailed picture book, vivid and funny and poignant and clever and tragic and unbelievably musical. Formal poetry is put to its greatest uses here, and ... Read full review
Review: High Windows
User Review - Chris Lilly - GoodreadsCrude, ungenerous, bitterly reactionary, And occasionally suffused with a grace and brilliance, and a joy in craftsmanship. The last collection, published while I was at Hull. Didn't like him, don't like this, except when, just occasionally, he shows what an amazing poet he could be. Read full review
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User Review - Jamie - Goodreads"The Old Fools" makes me feel RILLY SAD. Also a generally lovely collection, & I think more consistent than Whitsun Weddings, which for me is largely good because of "An Arundel Tomb." Larkin is like ... Read full review
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User Review - Melissa Engberg - GoodreadsI am unashamedly biased- I need Philip Larkin like I need oxygen!! Read him. Now. Read full review
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User Review - Sarah Rowland - GoodreadsI don't read a lot of poetry but I revisited this book which I studied at school and found that a lot of the poems were still very familiar to me though I have a terrible memory. Cut Grass is my favourite. Read full review
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User Review - Be - GoodreadsLarkin was an exquisite craftsman, possibly the best of the second half of the twentieth Century. This collection is a distillation of his verse that is so intense I'd wager to say that not loving it completely only means you are not a fan of poetry in English. Perfect and essential. Read full review
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User Review - Francis Gilbert - GoodreadsSo slim, so few words, but what a powerful impact this book had on me! Read full review
