Philip Larkin: The Man and his Work

✍ Scribed by Dale Salwak (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 204
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A collection of essays celebrating the talents of Philip Larkin, poet, critic and fiction writer who died in 1985. They range from Kingsley Amis' and Anthony Curtis' fine memoirs of Larkin's life at Oxford to William H.Pritchard's examination of some of the qualities in his poetry.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Farewell to a Friend....Pages 3-6
Larkin’s Oxford....Pages 7-17
Larkin Around in the Library....Pages 18-26
‘I Remember, I Remember’, 1955–85....Pages 27-37
‘Goodbye, Witherspoon’: a Jazz Friendship....Pages 38-47
Philip Larkin Abroad....Pages 48-53
An Innocent at Home....Pages 54-58
Philip Larkin and Barbara Pym: Two Quiet People....Pages 59-68
Front Matter....Pages 69-69
Larkin’s Presence....Pages 71-89
Philip Larkin: Voices and Values....Pages 90-111
Tentative Initiation in the Poetry....Pages 112-117
Philip Larkin: the Metonymic Muse....Pages 118-128
Art and Larkin....Pages 129-139
Larkin’s Humanity Viewed from Abroad....Pages 140-149
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
A Personal Memoir....Pages 153-157
Philip Larkin’s Inner World....Pages 158-161
Larkin’s Voice....Pages 162-164
Philip Larkin, 1922–85....Pages 165-168
Back Matter....Pages 169-184

✦ Subjects

British and Irish Literature; Twentieth-Century Literature; Poetry and Poetics; Fiction