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	Philip Larkin
		Larkin avoided "big" words, sentimentality and philosophising, his language was plain, his approach was cool and restricted, which led critics to accuse him of lack of emotional involvement.
		Larkin managed to maintain three long relationships - most of his life Larkin spent with Monica Jones, a professor of English, whom he met when he was 24.
		Larkin's mother died in 1977, and after her death he wrote only 11 poems, although he produced a book of essays in 1983.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /larkin.htm (1111 words)

	Philip Larkin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Larkin was born to Sydney and Eva Larkin in Coventry, a provincial city in the Midlands.
		Larkin was by contrast a notable critic of modernism in contemporary art and literature; his scepticism is at its most nuanced and illuminating in Required Writing, a collection of his book-reviews and essays; it is at its most enflamed and polemical in his introduction to his collected jazz reviews, All What Jazz.
		Larkin died of oesophageal cancer, aged 63, and is buried at the Cottingham Municipal Cemetery in Hull.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Philip_Larkin (794 words)

	On Philip Larkin. - The Literary Review - HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Larkin's poems, which were initially influenced by Thomas Hardy, W.B. Yeats and W.H. Auden, chronicle his distrust of the institution of marriage.
		In England, the posthumous publication in 1985 of Philip Larkin's Collected Poems was celebrated as a national event; both critics and public joined in hailing the achievement of a poet who enjoyed the affection and consequent popularity not accorded a major poet since Tennyson.
		Larkin's early work, however, is not marked by the harsh realism of "Sad Steps." Nor does the work in the juvenilia section of Collected Poems show the dominance Larkin had later to shake off of the triumvirate: Hardy-Yeats-Auden.
	www.highbeam.com /doc/1G1:14765999/On+Philip+Larkin..html?refid=ip_hf (3017 words)

	The Philip Larkin Society: Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Philip Arthur Larkin was born on August 9, 1922, in Coventry.
		Larkin took up the position of Librarian at the University of Hull on March 21, 1955, and it was in October of that year that The Less Deceived was published.
		Philip Larkin died of cancer at 1.24 a.m.
	www.philiplarkin.com /biog.htm (815 words)

	“Just let me put this bastard on the skids”: Andrew Motion’s Philip Larkin by Christopher Carduff
		This Larkin is not the public Larkin of the magazine interviews, who, with self-deprecating humor, presented us with a highly attractive case of stiff-upper-lip in the face of life’s shortcomings and of self-sacrifice in the name of art.
		Except for his mother, she was the most important person in Larkin’s life, and she survives him as co-trustee of his estate and, with Thwaite and Motion, one of his literary executors.
		That Larkin the letter-writer was often playing to his recipients’ expectations—that he was trying to keep a wartime school-chum camaraderie and a damn-the-world adolescent’s worldview alive for old time’s sake—is cold comfort to Motion.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/12/sep93/larkin.htm (2098 words)

	Homage to Philip Larkin - The New York Review of Books
		Philip Larkin's own precise wishes in his will, drawn up during his illness in July 1985 [he was to die at the beginning of December that year], were not at first entirely clear; yet he certainly gave his literary executors, of whom I am one, discretion over the publication of his unpublished manuscripts.
		Larkin's directions on what was to be done with these surviving papers were hard to interpret, and the clauses in his will dealing with the matter were ambiguous.
		Larkin's views on politics, race, and class, as expressed in the correspondence, especially in his later years, are frequently hair-raising in their violence and virulence.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/18715 (3685 words)

	Larkin
		Philip Larkin is buried in the Cottingham Municipal Cemetery, Eppleworth Rd, Cottingham, Hull, England.
		Larkin moved to Hull in 1955 when he was appointed Head Librarian at the university's Brynmor Jones library.
		Larkin died of throat cancer in The Nuffield Hospital, Hull.
	www.poetsgraves.co.uk /larkin.htm (270 words)

	Philip Larkin Subject Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Philip Larkin's opinions and advice were frequently sought on jazz matters as well as poetry.
		Larkin had extensive contact with those critics associated with the coinage of 'the movement' as a literary category.
		Larkin was a superb administrator in the traditional style, and his activities were copiously documented in the form of letters, memoranda and minutes.
	www.hull.ac.uk /arc/collection/philiplarkin/colls.html (1140 words)

	Philip Larkin Biography and Summary
		Philip Larkin (1922-1986) was one of England's leading poets to emerge after World War II.
		Philip Larkin was born August 9, 1922, the son of Sydney and Eva Emily Larkin.
		Philip Arthur Larkin(9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist and jazz critic.
	www.bookrags.com /Philip_Larkin (287 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Collected Poems: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The thing about Philip Larkin is that he doesn't dress anythingup, he tells it purely how he sees it, and quite often this is what deterspeople from reading him.
		No edition of Larkin's poems could ever be a waste of paper, and anybody without them should buy at once: but please note that this is not the 1980s edition of the same name, and has been cut.
		Philip Larkin is the greatest (and most under-rated) poet in English.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0571216544 (775 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Arts \| Haul of rare Larkin poems found
		The poems were found in library archives by Trevor Tolley, a member of the Philip Larkin Society, as he researched the poet's early work.
		Larkin was devastated by the death of his father, and And Yet was thought to have been the last poem he wrote for a long period.
		Larkin, who died in 1985 aged 63, was chosen as the nation's best-loved poet of the last 50 years in a 2003 survey by the Poetry Book Society.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/3550924.stm (262 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| News \| From a garage studio in Yorkshire, Larkin speaks again
		Twenty-one years after his death, the poet Philip Larkin has spoken again in a set of tapes stashed in an attic along with hundreds of local history interviews recorded in the town of Hornsea.
		Larkin made the tapes with a colleague, John Weeks, who managed the sound department at Hull University when the poet was the chief librarian there.
		Housed in the garage, the studio was usually the source of freelance documentaries for BBC Radio Humberside, according to Weeks' son John, who finally decided to sort out hundreds of tapes earlier this year after his father died in 1995.
	books.guardian.co.uk /news/articles/0,,1709285,00.html (471 words)

	Poet: Philip Larkin - All poems of Philip Larkin
		Poet: Philip Larkin - All poems of Philip Larkin
		Philip Larkin was born in 1922 in Coventry, England.
		His first book of poetry, The North Ship, was published in 1945 and, though not particularly strong on its own, is notable insofar as certain passages foreshadow the unique sensibility and maturity that..
	www.poemhunter.com /philip-larkin (308 words)

	Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Philip Larkin
		In 1946, Larkin discovered the poetry of Thomas Hardy and became a great admirer of his poetry, learning from Hardy how to make the commonplace and often dreary details of his life the basis for extremely tough, unsparing, and memorable poems.
		With his second volume of poetry, The Less Deceived (1955), Larkin became the preeminent poet of his generation, and a leading voice of what came to be called "The Movement," a group of young English writers who rejected the prevailing fashion for neo-Romantic writing in the style of Yeats and Dylan Thomas.
		Deeply anti-social and a great lover (and published critic) of American jazz, Larkin never married and conducted an uneventful life as a librarian in the provincial city of Hull, where he died in 1985.
	www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/176 (288 words)

	Larkin, Philip articles on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Philip Larkin Research Philip Larkin at the world's largest online library.
		Larkin, Philip LARKIN, PHILIP [Larkin, Philip] 1922-85, English poet.
		With an eye for the ordinary and a diction that is profoundly lucid and determinedly plain, Larkin wrote poetry of
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/07231.html (70 words)

	[minstrels] Days -- Philip Larkin
		what gives Larkin's poetry its originality and special quality is perhaps a piercing resonance of feeling which reveals a melancholy sensibility as keen as Tennyson's and as tough as Hardy's....
		Larkin personifies 'work' in another poem as a toad, and death in another as a ship ('fl-sailed unfamiliar').
		The personification of the abstract is important for Larkin as I think in this way they are given concrete and tangible presence.
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/100.html (470 words)

	Philip Larkin
		Philip Larkin: The Poet's Plight (Palgrave Macmillan, August 2005) New study by the Hull University Professor, Scholar and Philip Larkin Society founder.
		Philip Larkin and me, or you: the democratic appeal of his poetry.
		King, Don W. "Sacramentalism in the Poetry of Philip Larkin." A scholarly article argues that Larkin's skeptical tone doesn't mean he is incurably pessimistic, contending that his use of sacramental motifs illustrates a curiosity about spiritual matters.
	www.literaryhistory.com /20thC/Larkin.htm (1011 words)

	Philip Larkin
		Larkin was also a noted jazz critic, and published a collection of jazz essays in All What Jazz: A Record Diary (1960-1968).
		It's more disturbing, however, to say that many of Larkin's inner conflicts evolved in ways his work can only hint at.
		When he found his authentic voice in the late 1940s, the beautiful flowers of his poetry were already growing on long stalks out of pretty dismal ground....
	jrong.tripod.com /larkin.html (230 words)

	philip larkin ... at MSN Shopping
		Since his death in 1985, Philip Larkin's reputation as a...
		More gathering interviews, broadcasts, statements, and reviews that collectively offer a surprising portrait of Larkin: mordant, modest, intolerant, and generous -- but always himself.Philip Larkin (1922-85) was a prolific and honored British poet, editor, fiction writer, and reviewer.
		More is considered Philip Larkin's successor in both the easy brilliance of his verse and the national acclaim he has received.
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	[minstrels] Toads -- Philip Larkin
		A typical Larkin poem: dry and to the point, it echoes the quiet desperation which infuses much of his work.
		Philip Larkin is the poet of the emotionally underprivileged.
		Larkin's distaste for the spectacular extends itself to the _manner_ of his poetry; his verse exhibits the same precision and clarity as does that of Yeats.
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/544.html (1014 words)

	Larkin, Philip. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		With an eye for the ordinary and a diction that is profoundly lucid and determinedly plain, Larkin wrote poetry of diminution that quietly exposes the weakness and pretensions of English life.
		With the onset of deafness in the 1970s Larkin ceased writing poetry and jazz criticism.
		Despite a slim body of mature work, Larkin has a secure reputation as one of the finest and most original poets of his era.
	www.bartleby.com /65/la/Larkin-P.html (259 words)

	Philip Larkin
		A Philip Larkin biography - The Philip Larkin Society, University of Hull
		Philip Larkin, 1922-1985, by Donald Hall - The New Criterion
		Philip Larkin at the University of Hull - The Philip Larkin Society, University of Hull
	www.upei.ca /~english/202/modern/larkin.html (82 words)

	Philip Larkin : Grip of Light
		This website is dedicated to the life and works of Philip Larkin, the English writer of poems, novels and articles.
		Larkin and the Lawnmower Part II As a coda to the 2002 story, it transpires that the British Museum displayed a mower which belonged to Larkin during November 2004.
		The machine was immortalised in the 1979 poem 'The Mower', where it was responsible for the demise of a hedgehog.
	www.angelfire.com /poetry/larkin (448 words)

	Jazz Book Review - Larkin's Jazz: Essays and Reviews 1940 - 1984 by Philip Larkin @ jazzreview.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		What makes this book memorable reading is the width and scope of Larkin's ability to understand and analyze works of jazz in a straight-ahead fashion, detailing the good points and the uniqueness of a given jazz topic.
		The Palmer & White introduction, "The Natural Noise of Good: Philip Larkin, Jazz Journalist" and Plater's introduction are insightful examples of jazz journalism at its finest and give the reader an intimate look at Philip Larkin as a writer.
		LARKIN'S JAZZ is a remarkable book, interesting in its descriptions and details, fascinating in its approach to jazz as a musical art form, and enjoyable reading.
	www.jazzreview.com /bookreviewprint.cfm?ID=17 (492 words)

	The new Philip Larkin poem. - By Eric McHenry - Slate Magazine
		It's a picture of Larkin's secretary, Betty Mackereth, in cat's-eye glasses and a hairdo that makes her head look as though someone has dropped a giant dinner roll on it.
		Few would dispute that it's a better poem than the recently discovered one, but Larkin chose not to publish it, either—probably because it was written for Maeve Brennan, by then his lover of 15 years, and would have upset Monica Jones, by then his lover of a quarter-century.
		Larkin was known to spend months, sometimes years, on individual poems, taking them through dozens of drafts.
	www.slate.com /id/2078368 (979 words)

	Poetry: Philip Larkin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Philip Larkin Society seeks to promote awareness of Larkin’s life and work.
		In this essay from the Summer 1999 New Criterion, a monthly review of the arts and intellectual life, Donald Hall discusses Larkin’s life and poetry.
		Born in Coventry, Larkin attended St. John's College, Oxford (B.A., 1943; M. He was appointed librarian at the University of Hull in 1955, wrote jazz feature articles for the London Daily Telegraph from 1961 to 1971, and won numerous poetry awards, including the Queens Gold Medal (1965) and the Benson Medal (1975).
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/poetry/larkin.htm (211 words)

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