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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Mole, Tom

Titel

Philip Larkin, L. T. Meade, and The Sweet Girl Graduate

Ist Teil von

• Notes and queries, 2019-06, Vol.66 (2), p.315-316

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: Oxford University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Quelle

Oxford Journals 2020 Humanities

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Philip Larkin published 'Lines on a Young lady's Photograph Album' as the first poem in his second collection of poetry, The Less Deceived, in 1955. The poem had been written in Belfast two years earlier, and was addressed to Winifred Arnott, a young trainee librarian with whom Larkin had a brief, unconsummated relationship at this time. The poem describes several of the photographs in her album, and unfolds into a meditation on photography, desire, and the passing of time. One of the photographs depicts its subject as 'a sweet girl-graduate' (8). This has been identified as an allusion to Tennyson's The Princess, where the prologue mentions 'sweet girl-graduates in...