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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instanceOf book
poetry collection
author Philip Larkin NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
criticalReputation one of Philip Larkin's most important works
one of Philip Larkin's most provocative works
follows The Whitsun Weddings NERFINISHED
genre poetry
hasForm dramatic monologue
lyric poem
narrative poem
hasPoem Annus Mirabilis NERFINISHED
Cut Grass NERFINISHED
Dublinesque NERFINISHED
High Windows (poem) NERFINISHED
Livings
Love Again NERFINISHED
Money NERFINISHED
Posterity
Sad Steps NERFINISHED
Show Saturday NERFINISHED
The Bridge NERFINISHED
The Building NERFINISHED
The Card-Players NERFINISHED
The Explosion NERFINISHED
The Old Fools NERFINISHED
The School in August NERFINISHED
The Trees NERFINISHED
This Be The Verse NERFINISHED
Vers de Société NERFINISHED
language English
literaryMovement postwar British poetry
mainTheme aging
disillusionment
modern life
mortality
sexuality
notablePoem High Windows (poem) NERFINISHED
The Explosion NERFINISHED
The Old Fools NERFINISHED
This Be The Verse NERFINISHED
partOf Philip Larkin bibliography NERFINISHED
poet Philip Larkin NERFINISHED
precedes Collected Poems NERFINISHED
publicationYear 1974
publisher Faber and Faber NERFINISHED
setting contemporary England
style colloquial language
formal metrical control
ironic tone
targetAudience adult readers

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Philip Larkin notableWork High Windows