Philip Larkin
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Philip Larkin
By Laurence Lerner, Laurence LearnerPhilip Larkin is one of the finest English poets of our time. His poetic personality - nostalgic, wry, melancholy, ironic, witty and haunting - has appealed to a far wider...
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Philip Larkin: The Man and his Work
By Dale SalwakIt is that voice which makes Philip Larkin's poems different from those of his contemporaries, even from those of John Betjeman which he so loved and admired. Bill Ruddick has recently drawn attention to the echoes of Betjeman in ...
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Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love
By James BoothBooth's psychology is subtler than Motion's and more convincing' - Peter J. Conradi, Spectator 'Booth's diligence is unquestionable and even readers who think they know the poems will see nuances they had previously missed ... should render ...
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Philip Larkin: The Man and His Work
By Philip LarkinPhilip Larkin: The Man and His Work
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Philip Larkin: A Concordance to the Poetry of Philip Larkin
By R. J. C. Watt... wind Hills 9 The hills in their recumbent postures The sun falls behind Wales ; the towns and hills The deliberate ... tilting a blind face to the sky , Watched him in decay . They moved him . ' Flowered curtains , thin and frayed , Who ...
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Philip Larkin: The Poet's Plight
By J. BoothJames Booth reads Philip Larkin's mature poetry in terms of his ambiguous self-image as lonely, anti-social outsider, plighted to his art, and as nine-to-five librarian, sharing the common plight of humanity.