Author: Philip Larkin
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Category : Librarians
Languages : en
Pages : 791

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Author: Anthony Thwaite
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Languages : en
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Author: Philip Larkin
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Author: Philip Larkin
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571335616
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 671

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Letters Home gives access to the last major archive of Larkin's writing to remain unpublished: the letters to members of his family. These correspondences help tell the story of how Larkin came to be the writer and the man he was: to his father Sydney, a 'conservative anarchist' and admirer of Hitler, who died relatively early in Larkin's life; to his timid depressive mother Eva, who by contrast, lived long, and whose final years were shadowed by dementia; and to his sister Kitty, the sparse surviving fragment of whose correspondence with her brother gives an enigmatic glimpse of a complex and intimate relationship- But it was the years during which he and his sister looked after their mother in particular that shaped the writer we know so well: a number of poems written over this time are for her, and the mood of pain, shadow and despondency that characterises his later verse draws its strength from his experience of the long, lonely years of her senility. One surprising element in the volume, however, is the joie de vivre shown in the large number of witty and engaging drawings of himself and Eva, as 'Young Creature' and 'Old Creature', with which he enlivens his letters throughout the three decades of her widowhood.This important edition, meticulously edited by Larkin's biographer, James Booth, is a key piece of scholarship that completes the portrait of this most cherished of English poets.

Author: Philip Larkin
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Category : Poetry, Modern
Languages : en
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Following the correspondence are miscellaneous items which include 3 photographs of Larkin, 3 typescript Larkin poems, 3 cigarette tins that once contained some of the Larkin/Murphy letters, and a galley proof of The Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940-1985.

Author: Philip Larkin
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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Collects a wide range of writing by this witty and astute British poet, including commentary on a diverse list of authors

Author: Philip Larkin
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Category : Poetry, Modern
Languages : en
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Following the correspondence are miscellaneous items which include 3 photographs of Larkin, 3 typescript Larkin poems, 3 cigarette tins that once contained some of the Larkin/Murphy letters, and a galley proof of The Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940-1985.

Author: Philip Larkin
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571264611
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 435

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Philip Larkin met Monica Jones at University College Leicester in autumn 1946, when they were both twenty-four; he was the newly-appointed assistant librarian and she was an English lecturer. In 1950 Larkin moved to Belfast, and thence to Hull, while Monica remained in Leicester, becoming by turns his correspondent, lover and closest confidante, in a relationship which lasted over forty years until the poet's death in 1985. This remarkable unpublished correspondence only came to light after Monica Jones's death in 2001, and consists of nearly two thousand letters, postcards and telegrams, which chronicle - day by day, sometimes hour by hour - every aspect of Larkin's life and the convolutions of their relationship.

Author: G. Steinberg
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230251196
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Philip Larkin, one of England's greatest and most popular twentieth-century poets, is nonetheless widely regarded as a misanthropic, provincial recluse. This volume re-examines that critical view and argues that Larkin's poetry, far from demonstrating his misanthropy, highlights his profound awareness of and concern for readers.