"The Million-Petaled Flower / Of Being Here": Existence, Anxiety, and the Persistence of Beauty in Philip Larkin
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Schlesinger, Lee A.Term and Year
Spring 2021Date Published
2021
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This project explores the poetry of Philip Larkin through the lens of philosophical existentialism in order to unearth and explore the hidden beauty and universality that persists inside of a body of work so deeply centered around anxiety, isolation, and death.Collections