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Stephen Cooper has taught English Literature in schools, colleges, adult education establishments and the Open University. He has also published reviews on Larkin scholarship in the Philip Larkin Society newsletter, About Larkin, and has lectured on gender roles in Larkin's work in an international forum.
"Stephen Cooper's book sets a new standard in Larkin criticism. A
comprehensive study of all of Larkin's writings, including
juvenilia, fiction, poetry, drama and letters, it is also the most
challenging and provocative account of his fiction to date. With
impressive subtlety and skill, Cooper overturns the commonly held
view of Larkin as a jaundiced conservative and reveals how his
writing often emerges from surprisingly progressive and unorthodox
views on gender, nation and social class. The book is full of
unusual insights and thoughtful reflections on post-war British
culture. Larkin's poetry and fiction are given a new and lasting
significance in the light of this radical reappraisal." -- Stephen
Regan, Professor of English, University of Durham.
"Larkin's worldview, as revealed in Selected Letters of Philip
Larkin, 1940-1985, ed. by Anthony Thwaite (1992), became
increasingly sexist, racist, and socially conservative over time.
This contrasts sharply with the wry, sometimes jaundiced, usually
humane persona revealed in Larkin's poems. Presently, much Larkin
criticism focuses on the darker aspects of his thought as revealed
in the letters, consequently neglecting the excellences of his
work. Cooper redresses this trend by considering the poet's
neglected juvenilia and early fiction alongside the widely
appreciated later poetry and nonfiction. In the early works, Cooper
locates the germs of dominant themes in Larkin's canon - - for
example, gender, class, and identity - - and he provides excellent
close, parallel readings of these texts and later poems to show how
these themes changed and grew over time. Cooper cites unpublished
correspondence (letters to and reminiscences from friends and
colleagues) that underscores the idea that Larkin was more
artistically experimental and subversive than the current critical
portrait of him suggests, especially regarding the social
reinforcement of gender roles. Summing Up: Highly recommended." --
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