High Windows by Philip Larkin Random House of trying to become a

of trying to become a parent in modern Britain

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

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fluid and propulsive

High Windows by Philip Larkin Random House of trying to become aLarkin's final collection of poems shows, as does all his best work, his ability to adapt contemporary speech rhythms and everyday vocabulary to subtle metrical patterns and poetic forms. Many of the poems in the collection, which includes some of his best known pieces ('The Old Fools', 'This Be the Verse', 'The Explosion', and the title poem) show the preoccupation with death and transience that is so typical of the poet. Rather than words comes the