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New page: A major modern poet <ref>[http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/176 ]</ref>, '''Philip Larkin''' was born 9th August 1922 in Coventry, England. His poems are notable for their highly-st...
A major modern poet <ref>[http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/176
]</ref>, '''Philip Larkin''' was born 9th August 1922 in Coventry, [[England]]. His poems are notable for their highly-structured but flexible verse forms <ref>[http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=7076]</ref> and their combination of simple direct language with acute social and spiritual observation. In 1943, he graduated with a First Class Honours in [[English]] from St. John’s College, Oxford. He trained as a librarian and spent most of his working life at the University of Hull, having taken the position of Librarian there in 1955. Larkin died of [[cancer]], aged 63, on 2nd December 1985. <ref>[http://www.philiplarkin.com/biog.htm]</ref>
He published five short volumes of verse in his lifetime, but considered the totality of his mature work <ref>[http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18715
]</ref> to be contained in ''The Less Deceived'' (1955), ''The Whitsun Weddings'' (1964) and ''High Windows'' (1974). He wrote little in the decade prior to his death <ref>[http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=7076]</ref> and frustration at this loss of inspiration may have contributed to the increasingly reactionary tone of his posthumously published letters. <ref>[http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18715]</ref>
His most famous poems include:
* This Be The Verse [http://www.artofeurope.com/larkin/lar2.htm]
* The Whitsun Weddings [http://plagiarist.com/poetry/?wid=4882]
* High Windows [http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/11328-Philip-Larkin-High-Windows]
Selected other poems:
* Church Going [http://www.artofeurope.com/larkin/lar5.htm]
* MCMXIV [http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/502.html]
* Sunny Prestatyn [http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/14277-Philip-Larkin-Sunny-Prestatyn]
== References ==
1. http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/176
2. http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=7076
3. http://www.philiplarkin.com/biog.htm
4. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18715
5. http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=7076
6. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18715
== External links ==
1. This Be The Verse - http://www.artofeurope.com/larkin/lar2.htm
2. The Whitsun Weddings - http://plagiarist.com/poetry/?wid=4882
3. High Windows - http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/11328-Philip-Larkin-High-Windows
4. Church Going - http://www.artofeurope.com/larkin/lar5.htm
5. MCMXIV - http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/502.html
6. Sunny Prestatyn - http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/14277-Philip-Larkin-Sunny-Prestatyn
]</ref>, '''Philip Larkin''' was born 9th August 1922 in Coventry, [[England]]. His poems are notable for their highly-structured but flexible verse forms <ref>[http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=7076]</ref> and their combination of simple direct language with acute social and spiritual observation. In 1943, he graduated with a First Class Honours in [[English]] from St. John’s College, Oxford. He trained as a librarian and spent most of his working life at the University of Hull, having taken the position of Librarian there in 1955. Larkin died of [[cancer]], aged 63, on 2nd December 1985. <ref>[http://www.philiplarkin.com/biog.htm]</ref>
He published five short volumes of verse in his lifetime, but considered the totality of his mature work <ref>[http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18715
]</ref> to be contained in ''The Less Deceived'' (1955), ''The Whitsun Weddings'' (1964) and ''High Windows'' (1974). He wrote little in the decade prior to his death <ref>[http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=7076]</ref> and frustration at this loss of inspiration may have contributed to the increasingly reactionary tone of his posthumously published letters. <ref>[http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18715]</ref>
His most famous poems include:
* This Be The Verse [http://www.artofeurope.com/larkin/lar2.htm]
* The Whitsun Weddings [http://plagiarist.com/poetry/?wid=4882]
* High Windows [http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/11328-Philip-Larkin-High-Windows]
Selected other poems:
* Church Going [http://www.artofeurope.com/larkin/lar5.htm]
* MCMXIV [http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/502.html]
* Sunny Prestatyn [http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/14277-Philip-Larkin-Sunny-Prestatyn]
== References ==
1. http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/176
2. http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=7076
3. http://www.philiplarkin.com/biog.htm
4. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18715
5. http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=7076
6. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18715
== External links ==
1. This Be The Verse - http://www.artofeurope.com/larkin/lar2.htm
2. The Whitsun Weddings - http://plagiarist.com/poetry/?wid=4882
3. High Windows - http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/11328-Philip-Larkin-High-Windows
4. Church Going - http://www.artofeurope.com/larkin/lar5.htm
5. MCMXIV - http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/502.html
6. Sunny Prestatyn - http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/14277-Philip-Larkin-Sunny-Prestatyn