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universality and deconstructionism. Cooper argues that "The interplay of signs and motifs in the early work orchestrates a subversion of conventional attitudes towards class, gender, authority and sexual relations". Cooper identifies Larkin as a progressive writer, and perceives in the letters a "plea for alternative constructs of masculinity, femininity and social and political organisation". Cooper draws on the entire canon of Larkin's works, as well as on unpublished correspondence, to counter the image of Larkin as merely a racist, misogynist reactionary. Instead he identifies in Larkin what he calls a "subversive imagination". He highlights in particular "Larkin's objections to the hypocrisies of conventional sexual politics that hamper the lives of both sexes in equal measure".
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narratives", and on the other a "remorseless factuality" and "crudity of language". Motion defines this as a "life-enhancing struggle between opposites", and concludes that his poetry is typically "ambivalent": "His three mature collections have developed attitudes and styles of ... imaginative daring: in their prolonged debates with despair, they testify to wide sympathies, contain passages of frequently transcendent beauty, and demonstrate a poetic inclusiveness which is of immense consequence for his literary heirs."
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linguistic domain where the conventionally held conceptual incompatibles – which are traditional binary oppositions between absolutes and relatives, between abstracts and concretes, between fallings and risings and between singleness and multiplicity – are found to be the last stumbling-block for an artist aspiring to rise above the impasse of worldliness". This contrasts with an older view that Larkin's style barely changed over the course of his poetic career. Chatterjee identifies this view as being typified by
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1011:, with Monica Jones as his official partner. In March 1975, the relationship with Brennan restarted, and three weeks after this he initiated a secret affair with Betty Mackereth, who served as his secretary for 28 years, writing the long-undiscovered poem "We met at the end of the party" for her. Despite the logistical difficulties of having three relationships simultaneously, the situation continued until March 1978. From then on he and Jones were a monogamous couple.
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1918:'s judgement (quoted by Maeve Brennan) that of the writers who "have adopted a personal pose of extreme pessimism and loathing of the world ... none has done so with quite such a grinding focus on littleness and triviality as Larkin the man". Recent criticism of Larkin demonstrates a more complex set of values at work in his poetry and across the totality of his writings.
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work. While Larkin did express a dislike of the sound of his own voice ("I come from
Coventry, between the sloppiness of Leicester and the whine of Birmingham, you know—and sometimes it comes out"), the evidence indicates that this influenced more his preference not to give public readings of his own work, than his willingness to make audio recordings of his poems.
1254:(2002), as well as a supposed autobiography and an equally fictitious creative manifesto called "What we are writing for". Richard Bradford has written that these curious works show "three registers: cautious indifference, archly overwritten symbolism with a hint of Lawrence and prose that appears to disclose its writer's involuntary feelings of sexual excitement".
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1952:, which was a reaction against The Movement's poets, has also criticised Larkin for his uncritical and ideologically narrow position: "What after all were Larkin and The Movement but a denial of the effusive ethics of poetry from 1795 onwards, in favour of 'This is what life is really like' as if anyone thought for a second of representing observable 'life'.
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revolves around two losses": the "loss of modernism", which manifests itself as "the desire to find a moment of epiphany", and "the loss of
England, or rather the loss of the British Empire, which requires England to define itself in its own terms when previously it could define 'Englishness' in opposition to something else."
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Chatterjee argues: "It is under the defeatist veneer of his poetry that the positive side of Larkin's vision of life is hidden". This positivity, suggests
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are "metaphoric in nature, heavily indebted to Yeats's symbolist lyrics", the subsequent development of Larkin's mature style is "not ... a movement from Yeats to Hardy, but rather a surrounding of the
Yeatsian moment (the metaphor) within a Hardyesque frame". In Hawkes's view, "Larkin's poetry ...
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Goodman wrote that Larkin excelled as an administrator, committee man and arbitrator. "He treated his staff decently, and he motivated them", Goodman said. "He did this with a combination of efficiency, high standards, humour and compassion."
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observes of Larkin's poems: "their rage or contempt is always checked by the ... energy of their language and the satisfactions of their articulate formal control". Motion contrasts two aspects of his poetic personality—on the one hand, an enthusiasm for "symbolist moments" and "freely imaginative
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celebrations, the Brynmor Jones Library at Hull University mounted the exhibition "Larkin: New Eyes Each Year". It featured objects from Larkin's life, as well as his personal collection of books from his last home at Newland Park, in the original shelf order in which he had Larkin arranged them.
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Chatterjee's view of Larkin is grounded in a detailed analysis of his poetic style. He observes a development from Larkin's early works to his later ones, which sees his style change from "verbal opulence through a recognition of the self-ironising and self-negating potentiality of language to a
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which was described by his university colleague John Kenyon as "an entirely middle-class backwater". Larkin, who moved into the house in June, thought the four-bedroom property "utterly undistinguished" and reflected, "I can't say it's the kind of dwelling that is eloquent of the nobility of the
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colleague from the University of Hull. Although negotiations between Larkin, his publishers and the Watershed Foundation collapsed, the recording (of Larkin reading 26 poems selected from his four canonical volumes of poetry) was sold – by Larkin – to Harvard University's Poetry Room in 1981.
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From his mid-teens, Larkin "wrote ceaselessly", producing both poetry, initially modelled on Eliot and W. H. Auden, and fiction: he wrote five full-length novels, each of which he destroyed shortly after their completion. While he was at Oxford University, his first published poem, "Ultimatum",
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Amis, Larkin and other university friends formed a group they dubbed "The Seven", meeting to discuss each other's poetry, listen to jazz, and drink enthusiastically. During this time he had his first real social interaction with the opposite sex, but made no romantic headway. In 1943 he sat his
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In 1980, Larkin was invited by the Poets' Audio Center, Washington, to record a selection of poems from the full range of his poetic output for publication on a Watershed Foundation cassette tape. The recording was made in February 1980 (at Larkin's own expense) by John Weeks, a sound engineer
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series, in which Larkin was interviewed by John Betjeman. The filming took place in and around Hull (with some filming in North Lincolnshire), and showed Larkin in his natural surroundings: his flat in Pearson Park, the Brynmor Jones Library; and visiting churches and cemeteries. The film was
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between 1961 and 1971, which contains an attack on modern jazz that widens into a wholesale critique of modernism in the arts. Larkin (not unwillingly) acquired a reputation as an enemy of modernism, but recent critical assessments of Larkin's writings have identified them as possessing some
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on his pinko.org website, is of the opinion that "there now seems to be a very wide consensus that it was a bad thing, and that Movement poems are tedious, shallow, smug, sententious, emotionally dead, etc. Their successors in the mainstream retain most of these characteristics. Wolfgang
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In 1971, Larkin regained contact with his schoolfriend Colin Gunner, who had led a picaresque life. Their subsequent correspondence has gained notoriety as Larkin expressed right-wing views and used racist language. In the period from 1973 to 1974, Larkin became an Honorary Fellow of
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garage studio of the engineer who had made the recording for Larkin. (Subsequently, Larkin's own copy of the recording was found in the Larkin Archive at the University of Hull.) News of the "newly discovered" recording made the headlines in 2006, with extracts being broadcast in a
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Gortschacher's book on Little Magazine Profiles ... shows ... that there was a terrific dearth of magazines during the 50s—an impoverishment of openings which correlates with rigid and conservative poetry, and with the hegemony of a few people determined to exclude dissidents."
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wrote of the "refinement of self-consciousness, usually flawless in its execution" and Larkin's summoning up of "the world of all of us, the place where, in the end, we find our happiness, or not at all." He felt Larkin to be "the best poet England now has."
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in London's West End. An audio recording of the play, which is based on Larkin's letters, interviews, diaries and verse, was released in 2005. In June 2010, Courtenay returned to the University of Hull to give a performance of a newly revised version of
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One of Larkin's colleagues at Hull said he became a great figure in post-war British librarianship. Ten years after the new library's completion, Larkin computerized records for the entire library stock, making it the first library in Europe to install a
753:. In 1956, at the age of 34, he rented a self-contained flat on the top-floor of 32 Pearson Park, a three-storey red-brick house overlooking the park, previously the American Consulate. This, it seems, was the vantage point later commemorated in the poem
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691:(1954), the novel that made Amis famous and to whose long gestation Larkin contributed considerably. Six weeks after his father's death from cancer in March 1948, Larkin proposed to Ruth, and that summer the couple spent their annual holiday touring
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A summative view similar to those of Johnson and Regan is that of Robert Crawford, who argues that "In various ways, Larkin's work depends on, and develops from, Modernism." Furthermore, he "demonstrates just how slippery the word 'English' is".
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At one stage she offered to leave her husband to marry Larkin. From 1951 onwards Larkin holidayed with Jones in various locations around the British Isles. While in Belfast he also had a significant though sexually undeveloped friendship with
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was granted to Larkin almost immediately. In the years that followed, Larkin wrote several of his most best-known poems, followed in the 1970s by a series of longer and more sober poems, including "The Building" and "The Old Fools".
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and unpublished work; legal advice left the issue to the discretion of his literary executors, who decided the material should not be destroyed. When she died on 15 February 2001, Jones, in turn, left £1 million split between
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made close, long-standing friendships, such as those with James "Jim" Sutton, Colin Gunner and Noel "Josh" Hughes. Although home life was relatively cold, Larkin enjoyed support from his parents. For example, his deep passion for
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universities. In January 1974, Hull University informed Larkin that they were going to dispose of the building on Pearson Park in which he lived. Shortly afterwards he bought a detached two-storey 1950s house in
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on his seventy-fifth birthday by turning up on his doorstep with gifts and greetings. This scene was filmed by Jonathan Stedall and later featured in the third episode of his 1983 series for BBC2,
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in their relationship, and he memorialised it in his longest (and unfinished) poem "The Dance". Around this time, also at her prompting, Larkin learnt to drive and bought a car – his first, a
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which he had privately printed in a run of just 100 copies. Many of the poems in it subsequently appeared in his next published volume.
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came across the book and wrote to Larkin with his compliments. When the collection was reissued in 1966, it was presented as a work of
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reviewer referred to Larkin as "the bard of Coventry", but in 2010, 25 years after his death, it was Larkin's adopted home city,
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record 8 (Argo PLP 1088), issued in 1967 and featuring "Wants", "Coming", "Nothing to be Said", "Days" and "Dockery and Son";
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in December 2010, closing the Larkin 25 events. It is inscribed, "That Whitsun I was late getting away", from the poem,
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or the importance of its being reprinted now. It is good to know that Larkin could write so well when still so young."
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survey, almost two decades after his death, as Britain's best-loved poet of the previous 50 years, and in 2008
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near Hull (dated October). At first the volume attracted little attention, but in December it was included in
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a less forgiving reader could counter by asking if this does not qualify as the thought of a "true racist":
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knew perfectly well that 'life' was like that, if you nominated it thus, which is why they went elsewhere."
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both read from Larkin's work during the unveiling ceremony and an address was given by poet and author
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to describe the dominant trend in British post-war literature. Poems by Larkin were included in a 1953
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felt that Larkin exemplified "everything that is good in this 'new movement' and none of its faults".
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be concrete and tyres". The poem ends with the blunt statement, "I just think it will happen, soon."
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felt the collection was "in the running for the best published in this country since the war";
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in contemporary art and literature. His scepticism is at its most nuanced and illuminating in
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Media interest in Larkin has increased in the twenty-first century. Larkin's collection
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in March 2008. The recordings were issued on CD by Faber and Faber in January 2009 as
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now make explicit". On the other hand, the revelations were dismissed by the novelist
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The Uses of the Commonplace in Contemporary British Poetry: Larkin, Dunn and Raine
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Manley, Jeff. "Still Larkin Around: The Philip Larkin Centenary (9 August 2022)."
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in the order they appear in the printed volume. This was followed, in 1965, by
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OBE. The Society's Chair is Graham Chesters and deputy chair is Lyn Lockwood.
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Motion, Andrew (2005). "Philip Larkin" in Bayley, John and Carey, Leo (eds).
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summed his style up as a "piquant mixture of lyricism and discontent".
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Serious Earth: Philip Larkin's American Tape (The Watershed recording)
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In April 2008, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a play by Chris Harrald entitled
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was Larkin's rented accommodation from 1956 to 1974 (photo 2008).
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Larkin, Ideology and Critical Violence: A Case of Wrongful Conviction
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Misreading England: Poetry and Nationhood Since the Second World War
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In 2010, the city marked the 25th anniversary of his death with the
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The Poetry of Saying: British Poetry and its Discontents, 1950–2000
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The Power of Delight: A Lifetime in Literature: Essays, 1962–2002
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The Jupiter Anthology of 20th Century English Poetry – Part III
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Philip Larkin was born on 9 August 1922 at 2, Poultney Road,
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report. A programme examining the discovery in more depth,
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The Centennial of Larkin's birth was celebrated in 2022.
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The Philip Larkin Centre for Poetry and Creative Writing
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William James Day. Sydney Larkin's family originated in
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Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry
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Two appendices of all other published poems, including
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In 2004, a copy of this recording was uncovered in the
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called him "a poet of quite exceptional importance".
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The Sunday Sessions: Philip Larkin reading his poetry
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A People's History of English and American Literature
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1293:(1947), completing it in 1945. This was published by
1050:. His favourite piece was "I'm Down in the Dumps" by
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himself with them before they were placed before the
524:, in Manor Road. Having survived the bombings of the
147:
Cottingham cemetery location of Philip Larkin's grave
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Sculpture of Larkin as a toad, displayed during the
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All of these appeared in Larkin's final collection,
7747:
People educated at King Henry VIII School, Coventry
7224:, Channel 4 television. Retrieved 13 November 2009.
6378:
A Gallery to Play To: The Story of the Mersey Poets
3943:
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3207:
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2201:
Anthology of 20th Century English Poetry – Part III
2036:
Such Deliberate Disguises: The Art of Philip Larkin
1661:, referring to Larkin's perceived association with
733:This second-floor flat overlooking Pearson Park in
698:In June 1950 Larkin was appointed sub-librarian at
465:
My friend said, 'judging from your face.' 'Oh well,
404:called him a "casual, habitual racist, and an easy
7589:The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse
6916:
6419:
6401:First Boredom Then Fear: The Life of Philip Larkin
5293:
5281:
4963:"Ugly on Purpose: Philip Larkin and John Coltrane"
4502:(Summer, 1996). Hofstra University. Archived from
4083:"Philip Larkin, Desert Island Discs – BBC Radio 4"
3052:The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse
911:The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse
812:Of . . . No, that's not the difference: rather how
741:In 1955 Larkin became University Librarian at the
579:was supported by the purchase of a drum kit and a
319:The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse
7230:, University of Hull. Retrieved 13 November 2009.
5225:
3711:"Philip Larkin at Hull: A Psycho-Literary Sketch"
2303:
2154:As all they might have done had they been loved.
685:that gave Kingsley Amis the inspiration to write
623:
272:, was published in 1945, followed by two novels,
7742:Members of the Order of the Companions of Honour
7663:
7148:Weeks, John (sound engineer) (22 January 2009).
6191:"Philip Larkin honoured at Hull Paragon station"
5064:"GCE: AS and A Level Specification: Section 3.4"
3202:
3178:
3176:
3174:
2995:Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955–1982
1184:. Larkin is commemorated with a green plaque on
1080:Death is no different whined at than withstood.
914:(1973). He was awarded a Visiting Fellowship at
326:. He was offered, but declined, the position of
16:English poet, novelist and librarian (1922–1985)
4801:. Soton.ac.uk. 12 February 2004. Archived from
4553:
4551:
4549:
3515:Larkin, letter to Monica Jones, 7 August 1953,
3396:
3394:
3392:
2503:was installed around a pillar near the statue.
2150:To some it means the difference they could make
1352:Anthology that also featured poems by Amis and
890:Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour
7074:Pretending to be Me: Philip Larkin, a Portrait
6289:. Hull 2017 UK City of Culture. Archived from
6219:
5646:Pretending to be Me: Philip Larkin, a Portrait
4748:
4746:
4138:
4136:
4134:
2540:From 5 July to 1 October 2017, as part of the
1492:. The "mature" Larkin style, first evident in
1217:And the last difficult pride in being humble.
467:I suppose it's not the place's fault,' I said.
463:'You look as if you wished the place in Hell,'
418:named him Britain's greatest post-war writer.
400:as hair-raising but also in places hilarious.
7702:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
7420:
7378:"Unknown Philip Larkin poem found in shoebox"
7361:"Archival material relating to Philip Larkin"
6257:"Philip Larkin to get Poets' Corner memorial"
5803:"The Philip Larkin Society website Home Page"
5642:
4574:
4572:
4456:Motion, Andrew (1997). Regan, Stephen (ed.).
3668:
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3357:
3171:
469:'Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.'
7597:Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940–1985
4947:Richardson, G. "Larkin the Porn Star Poet",
4546:
4309:
4307:
3389:
3298:
3080:Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940–1985
2113:is one of the available poetry texts in the
1970:Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940–1985
1824:That spreads through other lives like a tree
1633:: "few will question the intrinsic value of
1582:Your wants, the world's for you, and (worse)
1450:I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.
1196:
7638:Relationships that influenced Philip Larkin
5779:. London: Guardian News and Media Limited.
5739:
5519:. London: Guardian News and Media Limited.
5453:. London: Guardian News and Media Limited.
4960:
4842:
4743:
4216:. London: Guardian News and Media Limited.
4131:
3493:. The Philip Larkin Society. Archived from
2949:
2688:"Born Yesterday" (written for the birth of
2347:, later transferring the production to the
2152:By loving others, but across most it sweeps
2133:displayed extracts from his poems in 2010.
1456:Till then I see what's really always there:
630:Relationships that influenced Philip Larkin
512:The Larkin family lived in the district of
455:
7727:Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature
7427:
7413:
7369:
7352:
6729:
6444:
6352:
5983:"Philip Larkin Centre, University of Hull"
5611:
5513:"Life limited by love – Larkin with Women"
5510:
4569:
3786:Collection Development in the Digital Age.
3663:
3477:
3434:. Orlando.cambridge.org. 2 December 1985.
3354:
3246:The 50 greatest British writers since 1945
3219:
3217:
3034:. Hull University Press (published 1987).
2826:"The Dance" (unfinished & unpublished)
2695:"Lines on a Young Lady's Photograph Album"
1454:In time the curtain-edges will grow light.
1452:Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare.
54:
7210:"Philip Larkin, The Art of Poetry No. 30"
6990:Out of Reach: The Poetry of Philip Larkin
6987:
6964:
6878:(1990). "Into the Heart of Englishness,"
6665:
6447:Philip Larkin: Poetry That Builds Bridges
4304:
3336:"Philip Larkin statue at Paragon Station"
3265:a poet "with feet firmly on the ground,"
3186:. Poetryarchive.org. 2008. Archived from
2545:Also in 2017, in the Burgess district of
2320:, Scarborough, reprising his role at the
1246:. Under this name he wrote two novellas,
1215:And are required lastly to give up pride,
677:and was appointed assistant librarian at
7707:Deaths from esophageal cancer in England
7692:Academics of the University of Leicester
7207:
6941:
6505:
6482:
6398:
5612:Billington, Michael (19 February 2003).
5511:Billington, Michael (13 November 1999).
5488:. British Film Institute. Archived from
4884:
2399:
2148:A sense of life lived according to love.
1994:, his increasing shift to the political
1963:
1884:
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1711:, the compiler of an anthology entitled
1502:
1458:Unresting death, a whole day nearer now,
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6886:. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 160–177.
6852:
6844:CS1 maint: location missing publisher (
6706:
6622:Philip Larkin, the Marvell Press and Me
6619:
6611:CS1 maint: location missing publisher (
6575:
6567:CS1 maint: location missing publisher (
6417:
6311:
6101:"Remembering Philip Larkin 25 years on"
5805:. Philip Larkin Society. Archived from
5584:
4869:
4039:
3306:"Philip Larkin statue unveiled in Hull"
3214:
3097:
3073:
2977:All What Jazz: A Record Diary 1961–1971
2834:
2794:
2455:In May 2022 Larkin's childhood school,
1736:was the inspiration for Larkin's poem "
1462:And where and when I shall myself die.
877:in a series of locations in and around
816:Why did he think adding meant increase?
814:Convinced he was he should be added to!
808:Only nineteen, he must have taken stock
7664:
7218:, a long interview with Philip Larkin.
6889:
6767:
6642:
6531:
6463:
6355:Philip Larkin A Bibliography 1933–1994
6098:
5770:
5444:
5272:
5107:Oxford, Cambridge and RSA Examinations
5071:Assessment and Qualifications Alliance
4455:
4431:
4337:
4322:
4109:"Unpublished Philip Larkin poem found"
3546:Larkin to Monica Jones, 8 April 1955,
3048:
3029:
2823:"Party Politics" (last published poem)
1427:" and "The Explosion", as well as the
1180:, and another £1 million to the
857:In 1964, following the publication of
7408:
7072:(author and reader) (21 April 2005).
6914:
6808:
6748:
6375:
5918:"Hull, East Yorkshire: Philip Larkin"
5783:from the original on 19 February 2014
5742:"What not to swear (Last night's TV)"
5593:from the original on 29 February 2016
5585:Spencer, Charles (20 February 2003).
4969:from the original on 29 December 2018
4961:Rodwan, Jr., John G. (January 2009).
4205:
4089:from the original on 30 December 2015
3913:from the original on 26 November 2016
3708:
2381:Philip Larkin, Love and Death in Hull
2172:In 1959, the Marvell Press published
1460:Making all thought impossible but how
1322:It was during Larkin's five years in
1130:In 1983, Jones was hospitalised with
322:(1973). His many honours include the
314:All What Jazz: A Record Diary 1961–71
7199:. The Poetry Archive. Archived from
7076:(Audio CD). Time Warner AudioBooks.
7038:
6237:from the original on 2 December 2016
6201:from the original on 5 December 2012
6161:"Council go-ahead for Larkin statue"
6111:from the original on 5 December 2010
6007:
5717:. BBC. 19 March 2003. Archived from
4902:from the original on 8 December 2013
4496:"Larkin's Blues: Jazz and Modernism"
4119:from the original on 7 December 2010
4003:from the original on 24 January 2009
3881:Down Cemetery Road, closing credits.
3608:. spectator.co.uk. 1 December 2012.
3412:from the original on 2 December 2016
3342:from the original on 13 January 2012
3316:from the original on 5 December 2010
3286:from the original on 13 October 2011
2580:Bronze statue of Larkin by sculptor
2074:now, too many fucking niggers about.
1986:. These revealed his obsession with
1826:And sways them on in a sort of sense
1594:"The Life with a Hole in it" (1974),
1571:
1539:
583:, supplemented by a subscription to
7697:Alumni of St John's College, Oxford
7687:Academics of the University of Hull
6709:Ideas of Landscape: An Introduction
6468:. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press.
5855:"Our new honorary vice-presidentsn"
4493:
3612:from the original on 30 August 2013
3606:"Two angry old men – The Spectator"
1828:And say why it never worked for me
1815:
1289:, Larkin started work on the novel
904:in recognition of his life's work.
810:Of what he wanted, and been capable
13:
7397:Poetical Notebook of Philip Larkin
7246:"Revealingly yours, Philip Larkin"
7182:
6734:. Lodz: University of Lodz Press.
6690:An Affair of Sanity: Philip Larkin
6449:. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers.
6171:from the original on 17 March 2011
5740:Banks-Smith, Nancy (7 July 2003).
5675:"Larkin Revisited – Tom Courtenay"
5422:. Internet Movie database (IMDb).
5400:from the original on 17 March 2011
5254:from the original on 26 March 2012
4823:Notes on the poetry of the 1940s:
4040:McHenry, Eric (10 February 2003).
1395:In 1963, Faber and Faber reissued
1191:
745:, a post he held until his death.
14:
7768:
7434:
7350:National Portrait Gallery, London
7257:
6576:Goodman, Richard (October 1997).
6267:from the original on 17 June 2015
5752:from the original on 3 March 2016
5624:from the original on 3 March 2016
5566:from the original on 14 June 2004
5486:"Poetry in Motion: Philip Larkin"
5457:from the original on 26 June 2017
5426:from the original on 6 April 2012
5348:from the original on 26 June 2014
5146:from the original on 10 July 2010
5109:. 12 January 2006. Archived from
5007:"The 50 greatest postwar writers"
4929:Bradford 2005, pp. 210 & 224.
4220:from the original on 6 March 2016
3845:Bradford 2005, pp. 181 & 193.
3488:
3432:"Philip Larkin © Orlando Project"
3373:. 3 December 2010. Archived from
1609:received just one review, in the
1059:Philip Larkin and the Third Woman
1014:In 1976, Larkin was the guest of
700:The Queen's University of Belfast
644:Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork
431:, that commemorated him with the
19:For the Irish former hurler, see
7333:
7321:
7208:Phillips, Robert (Summer 1982).
6466:Philip Larkin: Subversive Writer
6445:Chatterjee, Sisir Kumar (2006).
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5342:"Philip Larkin – The Lost Tapes"
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4404:BBC Radio Four, 1 December 2013
4327:. pp. 110–11, 114–5, 136–7.
4054:from the original on 10 May 2009
3438:from the original on 13 May 2016
2610:
2592:
2573:
2554:
2536:What will survive of us is love.
2534:Our almost-instinct almost true:
1857:Philip Larkin: Subversive Writer
1344:made the first use of the title
1024:. His choice of music included "
884:In 1968, Larkin was offered the
478:"I Remember, I Remember" (1954),
330:in 1984, following the death of
169:Hull Paragon Interchange station
6312:Chilver, Katrina (4 May 2017).
6137:. 5 August 2010. Archived from
6099:Youngs, Ian (2 December 2010).
5556:"Courtenay pens Larkin tribute"
5523:from the original on 8 May 2014
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4206:Ezard, John (13 January 2002).
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2820:"Aubade" (first published 1977)
2404:The Philip Larkin Society is a
2098:as voted for by viewers of the
1443:
1306:
1285:. Immediately after completing
1225:"Come then to prayers" (1946),
1213:All courages on these despairs,
1186:The Avenues, Kingston upon Hull
854:show in the North Tyne valley.
7615:List of poems by Philip Larkin
7244:Fletcher, Christopher (2008).
6797:. W. W. Norton & Company.
6773:Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life
6076:. 17 July 2010. Archived from
6008:Live, Coventry (17 May 2002).
5771:Daoust, Phil (29 April 2008).
5447:"A fanfare for the common man"
5445:Motion, Andrew (5 July 2003).
3972:"Gunner, Colin (Oral history)"
3259:
3235:
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3162:
3149:
3126:
2969:
2622:List of poems by Philip Larkin
2304:Fiction based on Larkin's life
2217:Douglas Dunn and Philip Larkin
1980:Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life
1906:The view that Larkin is not a
1812:looked at his jazz criticism.
1703:wrote a piece for the journal
1605:When first published in 1945,
1263:(1946). This was published by
1164:municipal cemetery near Hull.
1044:Symphony No. 1 in A flat major
624:Early career and relationships
1:
7192:. Retrieved 13 November 2009.
7154:(Audio CD). Faber and Faber.
6880:The Times Literary Supplement
6334:
6010:"School marks link with poet"
5985:. .hull.ac.uk. Archived from
5649:. Time Warner (Audio books).
5394:"Monitor: Down Cemetery Road"
5183:The Anthony Powell Newsletter
4988:"Larkin is nation's top poet"
4870:Kissick, Gary (Winter 1994).
4464:. pp. 32, 49–50, 52–53.
3252: (archived 11 May 2008),
3244:, BBC News, 23 October 2003;
3146:. Retrieved 12 November 2009.
2888:Burnett, Archie, ed. (2012),
2139:
1668:The Times Literary Supplement
1586:That brings what you'll get.
1580:Three-handed struggle between
1437:The Times Literary Supplement
799:
714:with one of his colleagues.
679:University College, Leicester
324:Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
7312:Resources in other libraries
7288:Resources in other libraries
6511:Devolving English Literature
6483:Corcoran, Neil, ed. (2007).
6347:The New York Review of Books
6287:"Larkin: New Eyes Each Year"
6135:This is Hull and East Riding
6074:This is Hull and East Riding
5036:The Nation's Favourite Poems
4799:"Biography of Andrew Duncan"
4500:Twentieth Century Literature
3049:Larkin, Philip, ed. (1973).
2542:Hull UK City of Culture 2017
2443:
2436:, which includes lines from
2312:starred in Ben Brown's play
1757:The New York Review of Books
1677:Times Educational Supplement
1578:Life is an immobile, locked,
1252:Michaelmas Term at St Brides
710:, who at the time was in an
7:
7197:"Philip Larkin (1922–1985)"
6809:Orwin, James (April 2008).
6666:Ingelbien, Raphael (2002).
6532:Gilroy, John (April 2008).
6428:Manchester University Press
6035:"Here – Philip Larkin (HD)"
5897:"Philip Larkin – COMMITTEE"
5032:Griff Rhys Jones (Foreword)
4951:33, Winter 2010, pp. 77–90.
4458:Philip Larkin and Symbolism
4379:Bradford 2005, pp. 249–251.
4352:Swarbrick 1995, pp. 122–23.
3242:Larkin is nation's top poet
3184:"Philip Larkin (1922–1985)"
2915:. The Fortune Press. 1946.
2734:"A Study of Reading Habits"
2661:. The Marvell Press. 1955.
2633:. The Fortune Press. 1945.
2188:, was published in 1975 as
1822:Isolate rather this element
1584:The unbeatable slow machine
1563:modernist characteristics.
1411:Royal Society of Literature
769:University Grants Committee
10:
7773:
7757:20th-century English poets
7346:Portraits of Philip Larkin
7140:, 29 April 2008. Repeated
6988:Swarbrick, Andrew (1995).
6965:Stojkovic, Tijana (2006).
6948:Liverpool University Press
6730:Jarniewicz, Jerzy (1994).
6515:Edinburgh University Press
6489:Cambridge University Press
6399:Bradford, Richard (2004).
6382:Liverpool University Press
6353:Bloomfield, B. C. (2002).
5829:"Anthony Thwaite obituary"
5100:"GCSE: English Literature"
3751:Larkin, speaking on BBC's
3568:Bradford 2005, pp. 28, 31.
3267:Coventry Evening Telegraph
2903:
2829:"Love Again" (unpublished)
2651:. Privately Printed. 1951.
2619:
2604:Queen's University Belfast
2379:broadcast the documentary
2367:broadcast a play entitled
1967:
1612:Coventry Evening Telegraph
1200:
1078:Lets no one off the grave.
900:awarded Larkin its annual
637:Why should I let the toad
627:
618:first-class honours degree
495:first-class excise officer
424:Coventry Evening Telegraph
302:(1974). He contributed to
18:
7607:
7564:
7504:
7485:
7442:
7307:Resources in your library
7283:Resources in your library
7190:The Philip Larkin Society
7039:Tuma, Keith, ed. (2001).
6942:Sheppard, Robert (2005).
6707:Johnson, Matthew (2007).
6695:29 September 2011 at the
5773:"Mr Larkin's Awkward Day"
5699:: CS1 maint: unfit URL (
4238:Bradford 2005, pp. 32–34.
3999:. Hull University. 2008.
3491:"Philip Larkin 1922–1985"
3015:. Faber and Faber. 2001.
2997:. Faber and Faber. 1983.
2979:. Faber and Faber. 1985.
2950:James Booth, ed. (2002).
2935:. Faber and Faber. 1947.
2755:. Faber and Faber. 1974.
2706:. Faber and Faber. 1964.
2615:
1804:wrote on the novels, and
1649:, who included it in its
1566:
1209:And kneel upon the stone,
1197:Juvenilia and early works
980:St John's College, Oxford
916:All Souls College, Oxford
898:Alfred Toepfer Foundation
826:"Dockery and Son" (1963),
595:St John's College, Oxford
566:Larkin's parents' former
221:
210:
205:St John's College, Oxford
200:
179:
175:
159:
108:
91:
69:
53:
30:
7388:Bloomfield/Larkin Papers
6898:Rowman & Littlefield
6813:. Hull. pp. 20–24.
6749:Moran, Eugene V (2002).
6643:Hawkes, Terence (1994).
6536:. Hull. pp. 25–27.
6464:Cooper, Stephen (2004).
6422:The Philip Larkin I Knew
6197:. BBC. 2 December 2012.
5943:19 February 2012 at the
5545:No. 14 October 2002 p.24
5222:Bloomfield 2002, p. 142.
5210:Bloomfield 2002, p. 141.
5194:Bloomfield 2002, p. 140.
5185:88 (Autumn 2022): 12-19.
4997:BBC News 15 October 2003
4993:12 February 2008 at the
4965:. Open Letters Monthly.
4731:Chatterjee 2007, p. 356.
4704:Chatterjee 2007, p. 331.
4543:Motion 1993, pp. 358–60.
4410:10 December 2013 at the
4115:. BBC. 5 December 2010.
3699:Motion 1993, pp. 244–245
3648:Bradford 2005, pp. 68–9.
3408:. BBC. 2 December 2016.
3312:. BBC. 2 December 2010.
3269:, 15 November 1973, p.17
3120:
2586:Hull Paragon Interchange
2480:Hull Paragon Interchange
2468:East Riding of Yorkshire
2345:West Yorkshire Playhouse
2162:"Faith Healing" (1960),
2146:In everyone there sleeps
1248:Trouble at Willow Gables
1147:East Riding of Yorkshire
518:Coventry railway station
456:Early life and education
136:53.7836056°N 0.4306083°W
7644:Mr Larkin's Awkward Day
7127:Mr Larkin's Awkward Day
7045:Oxford University Press
6915:Regan, Stephen (1997).
6580:. Hull. pp. 4–11.
6418:Brennan, Maeve (2002).
6343:Homage to Philip Larkin
6341:Banville, John (2006).
5273:Larkin, Philip (2001).
4843:Matthew Francis (ed.).
4779:Ingelbien 2002, p. 196.
4740:Chatterjee 2007, p. 19.
4722:Chatterjee 2007, p. 18.
4713:Chatterjee 2007, p. 14.
4605:Bradford 2005, p. 202.
4446:Motion 1993, pp. 468–9.
4432:Larkin, Philip (1988).
4338:Larkin, Philip (1988).
4323:Larkin, Philip (1988).
3788:London: Facet, 111-124.
3280:"The Toads Are In town"
3144:Encyclopædia Britannica
3057:Oxford University Press
2448:Memorials to Larkin in
2406:charitable organization
2389:Mr Larkin's Awkward Day
2375:, and in the same year
1948:, a participant in the
1544:Larkin was a critic of
1297:and was well received,
818:To me it was dilution.
539:, and had attended two
450:
7722:English male novelists
7486:Posthumous collections
7399:at the British Library
7338:Quotations related to
6853:Osborne, John (2008).
6620:Hartley, Jean (1989).
6403:. London: Peter Owen.
5643:Tom Courtenay (2005).
5073:. 2007. Archived from
4847:. Jacketmagazine.com.
4788:Crawford 2000, p. 276.
4761:Ingelbien 2002, p. 13.
4695:Chatterjee 2007, p. 4.
4686:Corcoran 2007, p. 149.
4632:Stojkovic 2006, p. 37.
4557:Bradford 2005, p. 144.
4516:Corcoran 2007, p. 147.
4361:Bradford 2005, p. 212.
4283:Bradford 2005, p. 103.
4169:Bradford 2005, p. 260.
4072:Bradford 2005, p. 245.
3931:Bradford 2005, p. 217.
3890:Bradford 2005, p. 203.
3824:Bradford 2005, p. 199.
3815:Bradford 2005, p. 183.
3681:Bradford 2005, p. 100.
3465:Motion 1993, pp. 8,10.
2538:
2457:King Henry VIII School
2318:Stephen Joseph Theatre
2156:
2096:Nation's Top 100 Poems
2077:
2076:
2061:
2049:
2024:The War Against Cliché
1950:British Poetry Revival
1895:
1872:Sisir Kumar Chatterjee
1838:posthumously published
1830:
1741:
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974:
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738:
667:Wellington, Shropshire
649:
571:
522:King Henry VIII School
472:
337:After graduating from
141:53.7836056; -0.4306083
7752:Writers from Coventry
7628:Philip Larkin Society
7203:on 27 September 2007.
6890:Powell, Neil (1980).
6263:. BBC. 15 June 2015.
5663:on 28 September 2007.
5614:"Pretending To Be Me"
5370:. BFI. Archived from
4874:. The Antioch Review.
4872:"They turn on Larkin"
4752:Brennan 2002, p. 109.
4641:Sheppard 2005, p. 23.
4614:Bradford 2005, p. 238
4274:Bradford 2005, p. 75.
4265:Bradford 2005, p. 77.
4256:Bradford 2005, p. 55.
4247:Bradford 2005, p. 51.
3672:Bradford 2005, p. 70.
3630:Bradford 2005, p. 59.
3586:Bradford 2005, p. 39.
3577:Bradford 2005, p. 38.
3537:Bradford 2005, p. 26.
3528:Bradford 2005, p. 25.
2532:
2400:Philip Larkin Society
2258:(1964), from the BBC
2144:
2065:
2057:
2053:
2040:
1968:Further information:
1964:Posthumous reputation
1888:
1836:"Love Again" (1974),
1820:
1800:looked at the poems,
1723:
1651:List of Books of 1955
1643:was first noticed by
1576:
1506:
1448:
1314:
1207:
1201:Further information:
1140:
1073:
1069:Final years and death
1009:Christ Church, Oxford
968:
804:
773:Brynmor Jones Library
747:Professor R. L. Brett
732:
671:King's College London
634:
565:
460:
347:Brynmor Jones Library
7652:(juvenile pseudonym)
7513:The Whitsun Weddings
7467:The Whitsun Weddings
7365:UK National Archives
7330:at Wikimedia Commons
7233:Brown, Mark (2008).
7132:28 June 2008 at the
7063:Audio and television
6713:Blackwell Publishing
6376:Bowen, Phil (2008).
5876:"Our New Presidentn"
5475:Thwaite 1992, p. 651
5420:"Time with Betjeman"
5170:Literature Cambridge
5142:. BBC. 7 July 2010.
4938:Motion 1993, p. 332.
4770:Johnson 2007, p. 66.
4677:Cooper 2004, p. 179.
4596:Motion 1993, p. 343.
4587:Motion 1993, p. 281.
4578:Motion 1993, p. 328.
4566:Motion 1993, p. 275.
4534:Motion 1993, p. 191.
4525:Motion 1993, p. 132.
4422:Hawkes 1995, p. 285.
4402:The Whitsun Weddings
4370:Motion 1993, p. 468.
4313:Motion 1993, p. 269.
4301:Motion 1993, p. 243.
4292:Motion 1993, p. 242.
4196:Motion 1993, p. xvi.
4187:Motion 1993, p. 522.
4178:Motion 1993, p. 524.
4160:Motion 1993, p. 498.
4151:Motion 1993, p. 494.
4030:Motion 1993, p. 438.
4021:Motion 1993, p. 440.
3976:Imperial War Museums
3952:Motion 1993, p. 431.
3940:Motion 1993, p. 407.
3872:Motion 1993, p. 437.
3854:Motion 1993, p. 319.
3742:Bradford 2005, p.154
3733:Motion 1993, p. 276.
3723:on 3 September 2013.
3660:Motion 1993, p. 238.
3639:Motion 1993, p. 104.
3133:Philip Arthur Larkin
2892:, Faber and Faber,
2871:The Whitsun Weddings
2722:The Whitsun Weddings
2703:The Whitsun Weddings
2485:The Whitsun Weddings
2165:The Whitsun Weddings
2111:The Whitsun Weddings
1746:The Whitsun Weddings
1734:Eleanor of Lancaster
1726:Chichester Cathedral
1406:The Whitsun Weddings
1390:The Whitsun Weddings
1316:William Butler Yeats
860:The Whitsun Weddings
830:The Whitsun Weddings
293:The Whitsun Weddings
251:Philip Arthur Larkin
230:The Whitsun Weddings
73:Philip Arthur Larkin
7168:on 17 December 2010
6893:Carpenters of Light
6703:, 25 November 1983.
6349:, 23 February 2006.
6223:(2 December 2016).
6165:BBC News Humberside
6047:on 13 November 2012
5809:on 3 September 2010
5116:on 18 December 2008
5080:on 5 September 2008
5012:6 July 2008 at the
4888:(7 December 2013).
4830:6 July 2008 at the
4623:Powell 1980, p. 83.
4388:Moran 2002, p. 151.
3961:Bowen 2008, p. 107.
3806:Goodman 1997, p. 10
3766:Goodman 1997, p. 4.
3690:Hartley 1989, p. 7.
3559:Motion 1993, p. 11.
3474:Motion 1993, p. 10.
3377:on 11 December 2010
3138:27 May 2009 at the
3105:. Faber and Faber.
3083:. Faber and Faber.
2954:. Faber and Faber.
2846:. Faber and Faber.
2806:. Faber and Faber.
2354:Pretending to Be Me
2338:Pretending to Be Me
2322:Orange Tree Theatre
2281:The South Bank Show
2249:The Sunday Sessions
2243:, was broadcast on
2117:English Literature
2086:Poetry Book Society
1705:Essays in Criticism
1559:The Daily Telegraph
1170:St Paul's Cathedral
1116:The South Bank Show
1021:Desert Island Discs
779:, the university's
675:Library Association
597:, to read English.
410:Poetry Book Society
316:(1985), and edited
305:The Daily Telegraph
131: /
7717:English librarians
7565:Other publications
7443:Poetry collections
7384:, 6 December 2010.
7144:, 25 January 2010.
6994:Palgrave Macmillan
6925:Palgrave Macmillan
6859:Palgrave Macmillan
6753:. New York: Nova.
6534:Larkin in the Dock
5920:. 25 October 2021n
5721:on 16 January 2010
5374:on 8 November 2007
5236:"The Larkin Tapes"
4668:Cooper 2004, p. 3.
4659:Cooper 2004, p. 2.
4650:Cooper 2004, p. 1.
4462:Palgrave Macmillan
3775:Goodman 1997, p. 7
3757:, 15 December 1964
3497:on 9 February 2010
3211:Tuma 2001, p. 445.
2890:The Complete Poems
2567:Kingston upon Hull
2563:Larkin 25 Festival
2497:Fanfare for Larkin
2470:. Forty decorated
2450:Kingston upon Hull
2411:literary executors
2310:Oliver Ford Davies
2273:Time With Betjeman
2256:Down Cemetery Road
2125:is offered by the
1896:
1742:
1674:In June 1956, the
1625:Elizabeth Jennings
1513:
1363:In November 1955,
1320:
1158:oesophageal cancer
1150:
982:, and was awarded
975:
969:105 Newland Park,
794:Net Book Agreement
743:University of Hull
739:
683:Senior Common Room
591:School Certificate
572:
429:Kingston upon Hull
351:University of Hull
215:University of Hull
115:municipal cemetery
102:Kingston upon Hull
7712:English agnostics
7659:
7658:
7534:This Be The Verse
7459:The Less Deceived
7326:Media related to
7264:Library resources
7161:978-0-571-24404-1
6868:978-1-4039-3706-3
6835:|periodical=
6602:|periodical=
6558:|periodical=
6293:on 7 October 2017
6167:. 5 August 2010.
5989:on 6 October 2011
5963:. 2 December 2016
5656:978-1-4055-0082-1
5331:Orwin 2008, p. 24
5322:Orwin 2008, p. 22
5313:Orwin 2008, p. 20
5304:Orwin 2008, p. 23
5290:Orwin 2008, p. 21
5021:, 5 January 2008.
4805:on 1 October 2009
4471:978-0-333-60483-0
3834:Letters to Monica
3548:Letters to Monica
3517:Letters to Monica
3256:, 5 January 2008.
3157:Letters to Monica
3103:Letters to Monica
3066:978-0-19-812137-4
3022:978-0-571-21614-7
3004:978-0-571-13120-4
2986:978-0-571-13476-2
2942:978-0-571-22581-1
2922:978-0-571-22582-8
2898:978-0-571-24006-7
2866:The Less Deceived
2853:978-0-571-21654-3
2776:"Annus Mirabilis"
2771:This Be The Verse
2762:978-0-571-11451-1
2713:978-0-571-09710-4
2668:978-0-900533-06-8
2658:The Less Deceived
2640:978-0-571-10503-8
2512:Westminster Abbey
2493:Hull City Council
2434:Westminster Abbey
2392:, recounting the
2314:Larkin With Women
2178:The Less Deceived
2029:Letters to Monica
1855:Stephen Cooper's
1762:Christopher Ricks
1701:Charles Tomlinson
1697:The Less Deceived
1641:The Less Deceived
1572:Reception history
1540:Prose non-fiction
1494:The Less Deceived
1470:"Aubade" (1977),
1425:This Be The Verse
1401:Oxford University
1382:Books of the Year
1365:The Less Deceived
1329:The Less Deceived
1265:Reginald A. Caton
1211:For we have tried
1109:and published by
1089:"Aubade" (1977),
924:copyright library
902:Shakespeare Prize
658:The Less Deceived
541:Nuremberg rallies
514:Radford, Coventry
491:Radford, Coventry
482:The Less Deceived
445:Westminster Abbey
369:". Influenced by
339:Oxford University
332:Sir John Betjeman
287:The Less Deceived
248:
247:
7764:
7650:Brunette Coleman
7581:A Girl in Winter
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7325:
7296:By Philip Larkin
7250:The Sunday Times
7217:
7214:The Paris Review
7204:
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7175:
7173:
7164:. Archived from
7125:Harrald, Chris.
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2358:Larkin Revisited
2294:Poetry in Motion
2241:The Larkin Tapes
2168:
2121:syllabus, while
2015:Selected Letters
1880:Bernard Bergonzi
1840:
1816:Critical opinion
1601:
1550:Required Writing
1476:
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1300:The Sunday Times
1291:A Girl in Winter
1244:Brunette Coleman
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1178:Durham Cathedral
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984:honorary degrees
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7520:An Arundel Tomb
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7494:Collected Poems
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7183:Further reading
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7134:Wayback Machine
7105:. Episode 140.
7097:Patrick Garland
7091:Philip Larkin,
7090:
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7055:
7032:
7022:Faber and Faber
7017:Larkin at Sixty
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6992:. Basingstoke:
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