As Alan Brownjohn noted in Philip Larkin, the poet produced without fanfare “the most technically brilliant and resonantly beautiful, profoundly disturbing yet appealing and approachable, body of verse of any English poet in the last twenty-five years.”

Since The Philip Larkin Society was founded in 1995, ten years after the poet’s death, it has become a national and international focus for lovers of his writings. The Society, a registered charity, provides a forum for the discussion of all aspects of Larkin’s work: as poet, novelist, jazz critic and librarian.

2015年6月10日 · Trying to create a ‘top ten’ definitive list of Philip Larkin’s best poems is impossible, not least because each Larkin fan will come up with a slightly different list. However, we’ve tried our best to bring together some of Larkin’s most classic poems here.

Philip Larkin (born August 9, 1922, Coventry, Warwickshire, England—died December 2, 1985, Kingston upon Hull) was the most representative and highly regarded of the poets who gave expression to a clipped, antiromantic sensibility prevalent in English verse in the 1950s.

Philip Larkin, with his unique abilities, left profound impacts on the global literature. After many years of his demise, his works still enjoy the same prestige. His witty ideas, with distinct literary qualities, won applause from his readers, critics, and other fellow writers.

Philip Arthur Larkin was born on August 9, 1922, in Coventry. He was the second child, and only son, of Sydney and Eva Larkin. Sydney Larkin was City Treasurer between the years 1922-44. Larkin’s sister, some ten years his senior, was called Catherine, but was known as Kitty.

Philip Larkin - Born in 1922, Philip Larkin was a leading voice of “The Movement,” a group of young English writers who rejected the prevailing fashion for neo-Romantic writing.

Philip Larkin (1922-1985) is a poet whose very name conjures up a specific persona: the gloomy, death-obsessed and darkly humorous observer of human foibles and failings. The truth, both about the man and his work, is more complex, but the existence of the popular image points to Larkin’s broader cultural influence, beyond the world of poetry.

They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. And add some extra, just for you. And half at one another’s throats. Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. And don’t have any kids yourself. Copyright Credit: Philip Larkin, "This Be the Verse" from Collected Poems. Copyright © Estate of Philip Larkin.

Philip Larkin is considered one of the foremost English poets of the latter half of the 20th century. His work continues to resonate with readers today , offering a clear-eyed, often melancholic view of everyday life and the human condition.

Philip Arthur Larkin (August 9, 1922 – December 2, 1985) was an English poet, novelist and jazz critic.

Philip Larkin was a 20th-century English poet, novelist, and librarian. He is widely regarded as one of the most significant voices in post-war British poetry. Larkin’s work addresses themes of love, mortality, and the passing of time.

4 天之前 · Our Poem of the Week is ‘An Arundel Tomb’ by Philip Larkin, from his much-loved first collection with Faber, The Whitsun Weddings. An Arundel Tomb. Side by side, their faces blurred, The earl and countess lie in stone, Their proper habits vaguely shown As …

Philip Larkin (1922-1985) Philip Arthur Larkin was born in Coventry on 9 August 1922, the only son and younger child of Sydney and Eva Larkin. His father was City Treasurer of Coventry from 1922 to 1944, and died from cancer in 1948 at the age of 63.

Philip Larkin was an English poet and novelist born in 1922. He is one of the most important modernist English poets. Explore his poetry with analysis.

2012年1月26日 · First there was The Selected, then The Collected, and now The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin, a soon-to-be-released compilation of all the poems— published and previously unpublished— that the poet ever wrote. 768 pages, folks.

2022年11月29日 · As a central, highly acclaimed representative of postwar poetry in Britain whose status beyond is less conspicuous, Philip Larkin marks to some extent the death of the transnational poetic giant; from the cosmopolitan lineage of Yeats, Eliot, and Auden we arrive at a poet often characterized as exclusively English and anti-modernist, whose ...

2015年3月25日 · Philip Larkin was that rare thing among poets: a household name in his own lifetime. Lines such as ‘Never such innocence again’ and ‘Sexual intercourse began / In nineteen sixty-three’ made him one of the most popular poets of the last century.