History Creator / PhilipLarkin

* GenerationXerox: In "This Be the Verse" it is pointed out that the parents who fucked you up were "fucked in in their turn" by their parents.

Philip Arthur Larkin [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever CBE]] (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985) was an English poet and occasional novelist. He was one of the leading poets in England starting with ''The Less Deceived'', released in 1955. His poems often contained soaring emotions involving life and death, but never achieved the [[{{Glurge}} cloying sentimentality]] and [[{{Wangst}} self-pity]] of other poets.

Philip Arthur Larkin (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985) was an English poet and occasional novelist. He was one of the leading poets in England starting with ''The Less Deceived'', released in 1955. His poems often contained soaring emotions involving life and death, but never achieved the [[{{Glurge}} cloying sentimentality]] and [[{{Wangst}} self-pity]] of other poets.

Philip Arthur Larkin (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985) was an English poet and occasional novelist. He was one of the leading poets in England starting with ''The Less Deceived'', released in 1955. His poems often contained soaring emotions involving life and death, but never achieved the [[{{Glurge}} cloying sentimentality]] and [[{{Wangst}} self-pity]] of other poets. An [[ReclusiveArtist intensely private]] man, Larkin never married and worked as a librarian. He was offered, but declined, the position of British Poet Laureate a year before his death from cancer at age 63.

Philip Arthur Larkin (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985) was an English poet and occasional novelist. He was one of the leading poets in England starting with ''The Less Deceived'', released in 1955. His poems often contained soaring emotions involving life and death, but never achieved the [[{{Glurge}} cloying sentimentality]] and [[{{Wangst}} self-pity]] of other poets. An [[ReclusiveArtist intensely private]] man, Larkin never married and worked as a librarian.

'''Selected Bibliography''':

'''Poetry'''

'''Prose'''

Philip Arthur Larkin (1922–1985) was a British poet and occasional novelist. He was one of the leading poets in England starting with ''The Less Deceived'', released in 1955. His poems often contained soaring emotions involving life and death, but never achieved the [[{{Glurge}} cloying sentimentality]] and [[{{Wangst}} self-pity]] of other poets. An [[ReclusiveArtist intensely private]] man, he never married and worked as a librarian.

* ConfirmedBachelor: Larkin was one. Several of his poems, such as ''Self's the Man'' or ''Dockery and Son'' address whether he's better off than those who married and had children.
* MeddlingParents: In ''This Be The Verse'', from '' High Windows''.
* PrecisionFStrike: Again, ''This Be The Verse''.

'''Philip Larkin''' (1922 - 1985) was a British poet and occasional novelist. He was one of the leading poets in England starting with ''The Less Deceived'', released in 1955. His poems often contained soaring emotions involving life and death, but never achieved the [[{{Glurge}} cloying sentimentality]] and [[{{Wangst}} self-pity]] of other poets. An [[ReclusiveArtist intensely private]] man, he never married and worked as a librarian.

* MeddlingParents: ''This Be The Verse'', from '' High Windows''.
* PrecisionFStrike: Again, in ''This Be The Verse''.

* MeddlingParents: ''This Be The Verse''.
* PrecisionFStrike: Again, in ''This Be The Verse'', from '' High Windows''.

'''Selected Bibliography:'''

''Poetry''

''Prose''

* TheAlcoholic: The speaker in ''Aubade'', which explains his moody death obsession.

'''Bibliography:'''

* PrecisionFStrike: Famously, in ''This Be The Verse'', from '' High Windows''.

'''Poetry'''

'''Prose'''

!!His poems contain examples of:

''Poetry''

* Femmes Damnées (1978)
* High Windows (1974)

''Prose''

* Jill (1964)
* All What Jazz: A Record Diary 1961-68 (1970)
* Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982 (1984)
* Selected Letters 1940-1985 (1992)

* The Whitsun Weddings (1964)

* Collected Poems (1989)
* Corgi Modern Poets in Focus 5 (1971)

* A Girl in Winter (1947)

Bibliography:

* The North Ship (1945)
* XX Poems (1951)
* Poems (1954)
* The Less Deceived (1955)

* Aubade (1980)

'''Philip Larkin''' (1922 - 1985) was a British poet and occasional novelist. He was one of the leading poets in England starting with ''The Less Deceived'', released in 1955. His poems often contained soaring emotions involving life and death, but never achieved the [[{{Glurge}} cloying sentimentality]] and self-pity of other poets. An intensely private man, he never married and worked as a librarian.

'''Poetry'''

'''Prose'''

The North Ship (1945)

XX Poems (1951)

Poems (1954)

The Less Deceived (1955)

The Whitsun Weddings (1964)

Aubade (1980)

Collected Poems (1989)

Corgi Modern Poets in Focus 5 (1971)

Femmes Damnées (1978)

High Windows (1974)

A Girl in Winter (1947)

Jill (1964)

All What Jazz: A Record Diary 1961-68 (1970)

Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982 (1984)

Selected Letters 1940-1985 (1992)