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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...