The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin by Philip Larkin

Author:Philip Larkin [Philip Larkin]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9780571294992
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2015-02-23T16:00:00+00:00

Home is so Sad

DATE AND TEXT

Wkbk 5 (1/5/13) contains two complete drafts after ‘29. xii [1958]’, dated respectively ‘30 xii 58’ and ‘31 xii 58’ at the end, followed by a further draft of the first two and a half lines. Hull DPL 2/3/2 is a t.s. with holograph corrections. Published in Oxford Magazine, 77. 24 (18 June 1959), 473, and in The Listener, 71. 1817 (23 Jan. 1964), 149.

VARIANTS (from Hull DPL 2/3/2)

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L to MJ, 30 Jan. 1964 (Bodl. MS Eng. c. 7427/74): ‘It goes awfully slack in the middle.’

Title ‘lightly contradicting a familiar cliché (that home is sweet)’: James Booth, ‘The Turf-Cutter and the Nine-to-Five Man: Heaney, Larkin, and “The Spiritual Intellect’s Great Work”’, Twentieth Century Literature, 43. 4 (Winter 1997), 379. 1 Home: ‘I am actually writing this at my “home”, which is what one always calls where one’s surviving parent lives’: L to BP, 7 Dec. 1963 (SL, 362). To MB, 13 Sept. 1972 (Brennan [2002], 55): ‘I am going “home” (as I still call it) this weekend as of course I must & want to, but it is saddening to face the sad situation again.’ To MJ, 9 Apr. 1957 (Bodl. MS Eng. c. 7415/123): ‘Home was rather sad in its way.’ To MJ, 12 Aug. 1962 (Bodl. MS Eng. c. 7425/41): ‘Home is a sad place, anyway’. 10 That vase: Patrick Swinden, ‘Larkin and the Exemplary Owen’, EIC, 44. 4 (1994), 326, compares Wilfred Owen, Conscious, 7: ‘What’s inside that jug?’ Cf. Lines on a Young Lady’s Photograph Album, 27: ‘Those flowers, that gate’. L pronounces ‘vase’ as /va:z/ in his recording.

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