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Poetry For All · May 9 · 24 min

Episode 109: Philip Larkin, Aubade

This episode continues our series on the aubade (a morning love song) with a dramatic turn. Larkin reinvents the tradition as waking to the fact that every new day brings a person one day closer to death. To see the tradition that Larkin reimagines, see our previous episode on John Donne, "The Sun Rising." For the text of Larkin's "Aubade" see the Poetry Foundation. For more on Larkin, see the Poetry Foundation. Thanks to Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, as well as Faber and Faber, for permission to read Larkin's "Aubade" for this episode. Photo by Barry Wilkinson/Radio Times via Getty Images

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This episode continues our series on the aubade (a morning love song) with a dramatic turn. Larkin reinvents the tradition as waking to the fact that every new day brings a person one day closer to death.

To see the tradition that Larkin reimagines, see our previous episode on John Donne, "The Sun Rising."

For the text of Larkin's "Aubade" see the Poetry Foundation.

For more on Larkin, see the Poetry Foundation.

Thanks to Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, as well as Faber and Faber, for permission to read Larkin's "Aubade" for this episode.

Photo by Barry Wilkinson/Radio Times via Getty Images

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