Philip Larkin
Philip Arthur Larkin was an English poet, novelist, and librarian. His first book of poetry, The North Ship, was published in 1945, followed by two novels, Jill (1946) and A Girl in Winter (1947). He came to prominence in 1955 with the publication of his second collection of poems, The Less Deceived, followed by The Whitsun Weddings (1964) and High Windows (1974).
Background
- Born in
- Coventry
- Educated at
- St John's CollegeKing Henry VIII School, Coventry
- Awards
- 🏆 King’s / Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry🏆 Cholmondeley Award🏆 Russell Loines Award for Poetry🏆 Commander of the Order of the British Empire🏆 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are, to recreate the familiar, eternalizing the poet's own perception in unique and original verbal form."
"Unknown Philip Larkin poem found in shoebox" by Richard Lea, in The Guardian"
"Life and literature is a question of what one thrills to, and further than that no man shall ever go without putting his foot in a turd."
"What was the rock my gliding childhood struck, / And what bright unreal path has led me here?"
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Timeline
1922
Born
Birth1985
Died
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