The poems of British master Philip Larkin (1922–1985), one of the great mid-century poets in English, have had a frustrating life since the death of their author: this is the third book of Larkin ...

Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless. Whatever the reason, I was a fan of Larkin’s work from a young age, and continue to be, to this day. Since I first memorized “The Trees,” not a spring has ...

In his valuable collection of essays and reviews, Required Writing, Philip Larkin wondered–in a piece about Sir John Betjeman–“Can it be that, as Eliot dominated the first half of the twentieth ...

Many lovers of Philip Larkin’s poetry were surprised to hear yesterday, via the BBC, that a new poem and a trove of unpublished work by the poet had been discovered. But no one was more surprised than ...

In this thoroughly researched, sometimes slow-moving biography, British scholar Bradford attempts to redress the unfavorable image of one of Britain's most popular 20th-century poets (1922–1985), ...

The world of Philip Larkin’s verse is far from glamorous. His natural habitat was English suburbia, a realm of grey dawns, hollow afternoons and low horizons. He spent most of his adult life working ...

August 9 marks the centenary of Philip Larkin, one of the most admired poets of the twentieth century. When Larkin died of esophageal cancer in 1985 at 63, he was England’s most beloved living poet.

In a talk given to university librarians, Philip Larkin, the poet and onetime librarian at the University of Hull, said about the preservation of literary manuscripts, “Unpublished work, unfinished ...

Stewart Mottram receives funding from Arts and Humanities Research Council. The research for this article was undertaken with colleagues from the University of Hull's Larkin Centre for Poetry and ...