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    A Study Guide for Philip Larkin's "Arundel Tomb"
    A Study Guide for Philip Larkin's "Arundel Tomb"
    A Study Guide for Philip Larkin's "Arundel Tomb"
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    A Study Guide for Philip Larkin's "Arundel Tomb"

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    A Study Guide for Philip Larkin's "Arundel Tomb," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 19, 2016
    ISBN9781535818759
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      A Study Guide for Philip Larkin's "Arundel Tomb" - Gale

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      An Arundel Tomb

      Philip Larkin

      1964

      Introduction

      In January 1956, Philip Larkin took a short vacation on England’s south coast, during which he visited Chichester Cathedral. In the cathedral, he saw a monument to the fourteenth-century earl of Arundel and his wife that showed them lying together, hand in hand. This image was the inspiration for An Arundel Tomb, which Larkin began soon after his return to his job as librarian at Hull University. The poem was finished on February 20, 1956.

      Larkin later discovered that the linking of hands that so caught his attention was a detail added long after the original had been completed. It was the work of Edward Richardson, a sculptor who in the 1840s reworked the memorial to repair damage it had suffered during the Reformation and the seventeenth-century civil war. The damage was so extensive that before the repairs, the earl had no arms and the countess’ right hand was missing. The two figures were not even lying together, but were placed on separate tombs. The decision to place them in the attitude that struck Larkin as significant was therefore taken over four hundred years after the work was first made, and was not the sculptor’s original intention. Larkin later commented with amusement on the historical inaccuracies of his poem, which do not affect the merits of the poem as a work of

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