Strange Calling: A Theological Approach to Larkin

This essay inquires into Larkin's understanding of poetic vocation, a major theme of his work, and a fruitful starting point for an inquiry into his relationship to Christianity. He is deeply preoccupied with the question of whether his life and work should be understood as the response to a ca...

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Main Author: Hobson, Theo 1972- (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2006
In: Literature and theology
Year: 2006, Volume: 20, Issue: 3, Pages: 301-320
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