Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love by James Booth

Author:James Booth [Booth, James]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Biographies & Memoirs, History & Criticism, Arts & Literature, Regional & Cultural, British, Poetry, European, Authors, Genres & Styles, Criticism & Theory, British & Irish, Literature & Fiction
ISBN: 9781620407837
Publisher: Bloomsbury Press
Published: 2014-11-04T06:00:00+00:00

How separate and unearthly love is,

Or women are, or what they do,

Or in our young unreal wishes

Seem to be: synthetic, new,

And natureless in ecstasies.

The word ‘natureless’, which occurs nowhere else in Larkin’s work, recalls Yeats’s ascent ‘out of nature’ in ‘Sailing to Byzantium’. On the ‘Listen’ recording of The Whitsun Weddings, made under the auspices of the Marvell Press, Larkin notes that this has been called a ‘silly poem about nighties’.74 It is in fact a moving evocation of the awesome impersonal power of sex.

Maeve’s account of the occasion of the poem bowdlerizes its erotic content:

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