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[[Image:U'nall_larkin203.jpg|thumb|right|Philip Larkin]]

[[Image:U'nall_larkin203.jpg|thumb|right|Philip Larkin]]

A major modern poet <ref>[http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/176

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 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 2nd December 1985.<ref>[http://www.philiplarkin.com/biog.htm]</ref>

]</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 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 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

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>

His most famous poems include:

His most famous poems include: