High Windows
York Notes Advanced

By Philip Larkin
Notes By Steve Eddy
October 2007
Longman / Pearson Education
Distrubuted by Trans-Atlantic Publications Inc.
ISBN: 9781405861823
127 pages, 5 3/4" x 8 1/4"
$21.95 Paper Original


For more than 25 years, York Notes have been helping students throughout the UK to get the inside track on the written word.

Firmly established as the nation’s favourite and most comprehensive range of literature study guides, each and every York Note has been carefully researched and written by experts to make sure that you get the most wide-ranging critical analysis, the most detailed commentary and the most helpful key points and checklists.

York Notes Advanced offer a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. Written by established literature experts, they introduce students to a more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts.

Contents Include:

Part 1: Introduction
How to Study a poem
Reading High Windows
Part 2: The Text
Note on the text
Detailed Summaries
Extended Commentaries
Part 3: Critical Approaches
Language and Style
Themes
Part 4: Critical History
Original Reception
More recent evaluation
Later appraisals
Part Five: Background
Philip Larkin's life and work
Social & Historical Background
Literary background
Chronology



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