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Philip Larkin: Selected Letters

Edited by Anthony Thwaite

Philip Larkin: Selected Letters( )
Author: Larkin, Philip
Larkin, Philip
ISBN:978-0-571-17048-7
Publication Date:Dec 1999
Publisher:Faber & Faber, Incorporated
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $20.00
Book Description:

The enormous popular appeal of Philip Larkin's poetry has long been established; but oddly little is known to his admiring public about the personality behind the work. The Selected Letters will change this, throwing light on a more complex, and in many ways more remarkable, figure than most readers will be expecting. Whether addressing his literary friends - who included Barbara Pym, Kingsley Amis and John Betjeman - or those less prominently placed, Larkin...
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Book Details
Pages:832
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / Poetry
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.265 x 8.58 x 1.365 Inches
Book Weight:1.914 Pounds
Author Biography
Larkin, Philip (Author)
Philip Larkin was a British poet, novelist, critic, and essayist. Born in 1922 in Coventry, England, he graduated from St. John's College, Oxford, in 1940 and then pursued a career as a librarian, becoming the librarian at the University of Hull in 1955.

Although he led a retiring life and published infrequently, producing only one volume of poetry approximately every 10 years, Larkin was still considered one of the preeminent contemporary British poets. He is often associated with the "Movement," a 1950s literary group that, through the use of colloquial language and common, everyday subjects, endeavored to create poetry that would appeal to the common reader. However, this association came about mainly because Larkin's poem "Church Going," for which he first gained critical attention, was published in New Lines, an anthology of the "Movement" poets. In reality, his work, particularly his later poems, is not typical of the group.

Larkin's published a total of only four volumes of poetry: The North Ship (1945), The Less Deceived (1955), The Whitsun Weddings (1964), and High Windows (1974). He also wrote two novels, Jill and A Girl in Winter, and published two volumes of prose, Required Writing and All That Jazz, a collection of his reviews of jazz records.

Philip Larkin died in 1985.

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