by Philip Larkin · Pre-Textos · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788487101465
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«Las bodas de Pentecostés» is Philip Larkin's poetry collection, published by Pre-Textos in paperback (95 pages, in Spanish).
The poems in this volume focus on characters and places relegated to the margins: poorly connected suburbs, workers trapped in consumerism, elderly people living on memories, failed marriages, shop windows promising happiness, and a constant awareness of death. The tone combines restrained tenderness with measured irony.
The translation is by Álvaro García. The edition is bilingual and belongs to the Poesía collection from Pre-Textos.
For readers of poetry and twentieth-century British literature, interested in the work of Philip Larkin.
Philip Arthur Larkin was an English poet, novelist, and librarian. His first book of poetry, The North Ship, was published in 1945, followed by two novels, Jill (1946) and A Girl in Winter (1947). He came to prominence in 1955 with the publication of his second collection of poems, The Less Deceived, followed by The Whitsun Weddings (1964) and High Windows (1974). He contributed to The Daily Telegraph as its jazz critic from 1961 to 1971, with his articles gathered in All What Jazz: A Record Diary 1961–71 (1985), and edited The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse (1973). His many honours include the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. He was offered, but declined, the position of Poet Laureate in 1984, following the death of Sir John Betjeman.
