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 ...

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 ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Philip Larkin is to be honoured with a memorial stone in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, to be laid alongside those of some of the most revered names in English language poetry ...

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 appreciation of Philip Larkin (“Trying to Preserve Something,” The New Criterion, February 1986), Robert Richman cites Seamus Heaney’s 1982 essay on Larkin for the proposition that Larkin’s ...

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.

Philip Larkin to rule himself out of consideration as the Oxford professor of poetry, according to an unpublished letter recently discovered in a college safe. As Oxford graduates prepare to vote for ...

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 ...

The author of the immortal opening couplet, "They fuck you up, your mum and dad/They may not mean to, but they do," the poet Philip Larkin (1922-85) was in 2008 voted "the greatest British writer" of ...