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| + | A major modern poet,<ref>[http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/176]</ref> '''Philip Larkin''' was born 9 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 University|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 2 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 | + | 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> |
| − | ]</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> | ||
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* [http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/11328-Philip-Larkin-High-Windows High Windows] | * [http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/11328-Philip-Larkin-High-Windows High Windows] | ||
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* [http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/502.html MCMXIV] | * [http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/502.html MCMXIV] | ||
* [http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/14277-Philip-Larkin-Sunny-Prestatyn Sunny Prestatyn] | * [http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/14277-Philip-Larkin-Sunny-Prestatyn Sunny Prestatyn] | ||
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Latest revision as of 16:40, April 17, 2017
A major modern poet,[1] Philip Larkin was born 9 August 1922 in Coventry, England. His poems are notable for their highly structured but flexible verse forms[2] 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. Johnâs 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 2 December 1985.[3]
He published five short volumes of verse in his lifetime, but considered the totality of his mature work[4] 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[5] and frustration at this loss of inspiration may have contributed to the increasingly reactionary tone of his posthumously published letters.[6]
His most famous poems include:
Selected other poems: