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‘Here’ doesn’t seem to be a philosophical poem. Larkin said it was just a ‘plain description’ [SL:346], and it certainly appears to be a straightforward account of a journey to the east Yorkshire coast. In this essay, however, I want to argue that the poem is an ambitious attempt to reconcile a profound philosophical tension in his thought.
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Rowe, M.W. (2011). ‘Here’: Avoiding the Subject. In: Philip Larkin: Art and Self. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230302150_2
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