• Philip Arthur Larkin CH CBE FRSL (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist, and librarian. His first book of poetry, The North Ship...
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    trade on the family connection", and selecting Larkin in honour of his favourite poet Philip Larkin. Larkin trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic...
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  • life of the poet Philip Larkin, multiple women had important roles which were significant influences on his poetry. Since Larkin's death in 1985, biographers...
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  • 1929 — 22 August 2014) was a librarian, biographer and close friend of Philip Larkin. Winifred Dawson was born in Stourbridge, Worcestershire, and spent...
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  • The list of poems by Philip Larkin come mostly from the four volumes of poetry published during his lifetime: The North Ship (July 1945) The Less Deceived...
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  • Church Going (category Poetry by Philip Larkin)
    is a poem by the English poet Philip Larkin (1922–1985) that is generally regarded as one of his masterpieces. Larkin's first draft of the poem was dated...
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  • York Larkin University, Miami Gardens, Florida Philip Larkin Society Larkin, Alabama, U.S. Larkin, California, U.S. Larkin, Johor, Malaysia Larkin (state...
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    Hull he met the university librarian and poet Philip Larkin. Motion was later appointed as one of Larkin's literary executors, which would privilege Motion's...
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    After his death his poems were lauded by Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden and Philip Larkin. Many of his novels concern tragic characters struggling against their...
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    notable aubades were published in the 20th century, such as "Aubade" by Philip Larkin. French composers of the turn of the 20th century wrote a number of...
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  • "Aubade" is a poem by the English poet Philip Larkin, first published in 1977. The theme of the poem is the terror of death. The title refers to the poetic...
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    show Pretending To Be Me based on the letters and writings of poet Philip Larkin, which first played at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds. It later...
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  • High Windows (category Poetry by Philip Larkin)
    High Windows is a collection of poems by English poet Philip Larkin, and was published in 1974 by Faber and Faber Limited. The paperback version was first...
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  • This Be The Verse (category Poetry by Philip Larkin)
    three stanzas with an alternating rhyme scheme, by the English poet Philip Larkin (1922–1985). It was written around April 1971, was first published in...
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  • Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love is a book by James Booth about the poet Philip Larkin. The book was first published in 2014. Morrison, Blake (22 August...
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  • the address of Philip Larkin from 1948 to 1950, while he was a librarian at the university there. Lucky Jim is dedicated to Larkin, who helped to inspire...
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    death of the poet Philip Larkin with the Larkin 25 Festival. This included the popular Larkin with Toads public art event. The 40 Larkin toads were displayed...
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  • literary editor of The Spectator, to describe a group of writers including Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, Donald Davie, D. J. Enright, John Wain, Elizabeth Jennings...
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  • English poet and critic, widely known as the editor of his friend Philip Larkin's collected poems and letters. Born in Chester, England, to Yorkshire...
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    Agriculture civil servant. He had an elder brother, Philip; his younger sister, Sally – for whose birth Philip Larkin composed "Born Yesterday" – died in 2000 at...
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  • Bysshe, Mary Shelley, John Donne, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thomas Hardy, Philip Larkin, BBC Radio 4, (2007) Mrs. Warren's Profession, by George Bernard Shaw...
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    Lampton in The Commander (2003) series. In Love Again, he played the poet Philip Larkin. In Iris (2001), he played the young John Bayley opposite Kate Winslet...
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    Other writers associated with misanthropy include Gustave Flaubert and Philip Larkin. The Joker from the DC Universe is an example of misanthropy in popular...
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    An Arundel Tomb (category Poetry by Philip Larkin)
    "An Arundel Tomb" is a poem by Philip Larkin, written and published in 1956, and subsequently included in his 1964 collection The Whitsun Weddings. It...
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  • Jill (novel) (category Works by Philip Larkin)
    Jill is a novel by English writer Philip Larkin, first published in 1946 by The Fortune Press, and reprinted by Faber and Faber (London) in 1964. It was...
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    C. S. Lewis was commemorated with a memorial floor stone. The poet Philip Larkin was commemorated with a floor stone dedicated on 2 December 2016. The...
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  • Inside Story (novel) (category Philip Larkin)
    account of Amis' relationship with three central figures who have died: Philip Larkin, Saul Bellow and Christopher Hitchens. Another central figure, Phoebe...
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  • the present world while the viewer hears Stewart reciting Aubade by Philip Larkin. Forest arrives at Devs and meets Stewart just inside the entrance,...
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  • The Mower is a poem by British poet Philip Larkin, written on 12 June 1979. It was first published in Humberside, the Hull Literary Club magazine, in...
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  • who admired her work were the fellow-writers Vita Sackville-West and Philip Larkin. Edith Joy Scovell was born in Eccleshall Bierlow, near Sheffield. Her...
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