Philip Larkin
Academic, Librarian, and Poet
Judge orders boy to live with father against his wishes...be hard for the mother and will be very hard for the boy. " Earlier this year, Lord Justice Wall borrowed the words of poet Philip Larkin to rebuke two warring parents, warning them they were "within a whisker" of losing their child. In this article: Judge Bond, Philip Larkin, British Airways, and London |
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Telegraph.co.uk - Manchester United | 6 days ago
Alex Ferguson punishment hints at dawning of new era in Premier League
...optimism of their first months in the top flight, Hull's decline has become fitting of an elegy by their own Philip Larkin. With his mahogany tan and earpiece, his garish tie and determined jutting-of-chin, the under-pressure Phil Brown...
In this article: Alex Ferguson, Premier League, Rafael Benitez, Chelsea, Carlo Ancelotti, Arsenal, Manchester United, Wigan, and Liverpool
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Guardian Unlimited | November 07, 2009
Tim Adams traces Alan Bennett's long journey of self-discovery
Bennett never went in for the angry rejection of the narrowness of his parents that fuelled the work of Dennis Potter, say, or Philip Larkin. He felt himself to be too kind for that. You could see, however, his entire career as an act of...
In this article: Alan Bennett, WH Auden, Benjamin Britten, Humphrey Carpenter, Cancer, Richard Griffiths, and Richard Eyre
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Independent.co.uk - Theater | November 05, 2009
A very English playwright: The return of Alan Bennett
...play Kafka's Dick. The author of The Trial had asked Max Brod to destroy all his papers. Did he mean it? Do writers (one thinks of Philip Larkin and his shredded diaries) ever unequivocally mean such an injunction to be taken literally?
In this article: Alan Bennett, WH Auden, Benjamin Britten, The History Boys, Andrew Motion, Ian McKellen, Kafka's Dick, and National Theatre
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Mourning lecturers in funeral march
...we have two sets of staff being paid different amounts to do the same job." A festival to celebrate the life and work of Philip Larkin has been announced, culminating in the unveiling of a statue in his honour in Hull. A five-month...
In this article: University of Hull, Liverpool, Liverpool Daily Post, and University and College Union
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Siegfried Sassoon archive likely to stay in UK after GBP550,000 award
"But I think there is something quite primitive about the connection between the writer and the country they write in. Philip Larkin talked about the meaningful and the magical when it came to archives and this is both meaningful and...
In this article: Siegfried Sassoon, Andrew Motion, UK, Cambridge University, US, Cambridge, and Military Cross
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Scare tactics: The Hammer horror film posters with real bite
"Tit and fang" is how the poet Philip Larkin summed up Hammer Films' output and, give or take the odd ill-fated deviation from the formula, he wasn't wrong. Cobwebs, coffins, crucifixes, bats, bubbling test tubes, buckets of blood,...
In this article: The Hammer, Universal, Tom Chantrell, Dracula, Queen's Award to Industry, James Bond, and Celluloid
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Times Online | October 28, 2009
Oxford English
...Lee in her introductory essay identifies as "the greatest living American writer"? Why is there as much on Les Murray as on Philip Larkin, and less on F. Scott Fitzgerald than on J. K. Rowling (or Thomas Lodge, or The Pickwick Papers)?
In this article: Hermione Lee, Oxford English, Robert Louis Stevenson, Suicide, Richard Carew, and Carroll John Daly
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The Poetry of Birds edited by Simon Armitage and Tim Dee: review
The selection, organised rather nattily by ornithological classification, encompasses Chaucer and Wordsworth, W B Yeats and Philip Larkin, while also including leading contemporary poets as well as examples of the various American...
In this article: Simon Armitage, Mistle Thrush, Blue Tit, Coal, Killer Whale, Song Thrush, and Emily Dickinson
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An Education, London Film Festival
...happened. We're in that little window of time between "the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles' first LP" (to quote poet Philip Larkin). Social and generational change are in the air but, on the outside at least, this is still a...
In this article: An Education, Carey Mulligan, London Film Festival, Lynn Barber, Lone Scherfig, and Alfred Molina
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BBC News | October 08, 2009
Poet Paterson wins GBP10,000 prize
...online vote. 'Must-read poet' The US-born writer beat John Donne, Benjamin Zephaniah, World War I poet Wilfred Owen and Philip Larkin to take the honour. Some 18,000 votes were cast in the poll, which is part of the BBC's Poetry...
In this article: Don Paterson, TS Eliot, Forward Poetry Prize, World War I, Benjamin Zephaniah, Robin Robertson, and Wilfred Owen
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Philip Arthur Larkin, CH, CBE, FRSL (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985), was an English poet, novelist and jazz critic. He spent his working life as a university librarian and was offered the Poet Laureateship following the death of John Betjeman, but declined the post. Larkin is commonly regarded as one of the greatest English poets of the latter half of the twentieth century. He first came to prominence with the publication in 1955 of his second collection, The Less Deceived. The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows followed in 1964 and 1974. In 2003 Larkin was chosen as "the nation's best-loved poet" in a survey by the Poetry Book Society, and in 2008 The Times named Larkin as the greatest post-war writer.
- Birth Date:
- August 09, 1922
- Birthplace:
- Coventry, West Midlands, England
- Death Date:
- December 02, 1985
- Place of Death:
- Hull, Humberside (now in East Riding of Yorkshire), England
- Cause of Death:
- Oesophageal cancer
- Nationality:
- British
- University Attended:
- St John's College, Oxford
- Occupation:
- Poet, Novelist, Jazz critic, Librarian
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