Philip Larkin

Philip Arthur Larkin (August 9, 1922 – December 2, 1985) was an English poet, novelist and jazz critic. One of the most prominent British poets of the second half of the 20th century – he was offered, but declined, the Poet Laureateship following the death of John Betjeman – he spent his working life as a university librarian.

Works

Poetry Collections

• The North Ship (1945)
• XX Poems (1953)
• The Fantasy Poets No. 21 (1954)
• The Less Deceived (1955)
• "Church Going" (read)
• The Whitsun Weddings (1964)
• "The Whitsun Weddings" (read)
• "An Arundel Tomb" (read)
• "A Study of Reading Habits" (read)
• "Ambulances" (read)
• High Windows (1974)
• "Homage to a Government (read)
• "This Be The Verse"
• "Annus Mirabilis" (read)
• "The Explosion" (read)
• Collected Poems 1938–83 (1988)
• "Aubade" (read) (first published 1977)
• "Party Politics" (read) (last published poem)

Fiction

• Jill (1946). ISBN 0879519614
• A Girl in Winter (1947). ISBN 0879512172
• "Trouble at Willow Gables" and Other Fiction 1943–1953 (writing as "Brunette Coleman"). ISBN 0571203477

Non-fiction

• All What Jazz: A Record Diary 1961–71
• Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955–82

Miscellaneous

• The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse (ed.) (1973)

Books about Larkin

• Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life, Andrew Motion (1993). ISBN 057117065
• Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, Anthony Thwaite, editor (1992). ISBN 057117048