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Like an oil painting
his first period of exile in New Zealand
Dreamers and fantasists repopulate its hidden corners: Rimbaud
as subtly satirical as it is unsubtly silly
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
High Windows by Philip Larkin Random House Like an oil paintingLarkin'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
