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""Sisir Kumar Chatterjee revisits Larkin’s oeuvre in light of a host of recent developments: editorial, critical and personal. The idea to ‘begin afresh’ may be only ‘almost true’, but the close re-readings yield a new harvest of fascinating details and intriguing insights."" Raphaël Ingelbien, Associate Professor of English Literature, KU Leuven and author of Misreading England: Poetry and Nationhood since the Second World War (Rodopi 2002). ""Larkin’s own passions and ambitions have never been so intelligently explained. Begin Afresh offers an insightful exploration into the development of Larkin’s oeuvre, viewing the novels and poetry as a whole. The author’s deep appreciation of Larkin’s work gives us a renewed vision of and affection for it."" Janice Rossen, author of Philip Larkin: His Life’s Work (Harvester Wheatsheaf 1989)

""Sisir Kumar Chatterjee revisits Larkin’s oeuvre in light of a host of recent developments: editorial, critical, and personal. The idea to ‘begin afresh’ may be only ‘almost true’, but the close re-readings yield a new harvest of fascinating details and intriguing insights."" - Raphaël Ingelbien, Associate Professor of English Literature, KU Leuven and author of Misreading England: Poetry and Nationhood since the Second World War (Rodopi 2002). ""Larkin’s own passions and ambitions have never been so intelligently explained. Begin Afresh offers an insightful exploration into the development of Larkin’s oeuvre, viewing the novels and poetry as a whole. The author’s deep appreciation of Larkin’s work gives us a renewed vision of and affection for it."" - Janice Rossen, author of Philip Larkin: His Life’s Work (London and Iowa 1989)

""Sisir Kumar Chatterjee revisits Larkin’s oeuvre in light of a host of recent developments: editorial, critical, and personal. The idea to ‘begin afresh’ may be only ‘almost true’, but the close re-readings yield a new harvest of fascinating details and intriguing insights."" Raphaël Ingelbien, Associate Professor of English Literature, KU Leuven and author of Misreading England: Poetry and Nationhood since the Second World War (Rodopi 2002). ""Larkin’s own passions and ambitions have never been so intelligently explained. Begin Afresh offers an insightful exploration into the development of Larkin’s oeuvre, viewing the novels and poetry as a whole. The author’s deep appreciation of Larkin’s work gives us a renewed vision of and affection for it."" Janice Rossen, author of Philip Larkin: His Life’s Work (London and Iowa 1989)

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Sisir Kumar Chatterjee is Associate Professor at Hooghly Mohsin College, Burdwan University, West Bengal, India. His first monograph on Philip Larkin was published in 2006 and he has published extensively on fiction, non-fiction and poetry. He co-edited The World of Agha Shahid Ali (2021) and is currently co-editing Arundhati Roy: Political, Ethical and Aesthetic Perspectives and a book on Thomas Hardy’s Mayor of Casterbridge. His novel Burning Burning was published in 2022.

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