Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940-85 by Philip Larkin

Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940-85 by Philip Larkin

These letters throw light on a more complex figure than most readers will probably be expecting. Whether addressing his literary friends, who included Barbara Pym, Kinglsey Amis and John Betjeman, or those less prominently placed, Larkin shows himself to be a frank and generous letter-writer. Confessions, jokes, advice, scurrilities, pronouncements on literature and jazz, impromptu verses, published here for the first time, gossip and wisdom abound in these pages. They offer a view of a poet's progress from brash youth to rueful age, and in complementing the poems, provide a biographical document for the serious reader.

Larkin, Philip: - Philip Larkin was born in Coventry in 1922. As well as his volumes of poems, which include The Less Deceived, The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows, he wrote two novels, Jill and A Girl in Winter, and two books of collected journalism: All What Jazz: A Record Diary and Required Writing: Miscellaneous Prose. He worked as a librarian at the University of Hull from 1955 until his death in 1985. He was the best-loved poet of his generation, and the recipient of innumerable honours, including the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and the WH Smith Award.

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ISBN 13	9780571151974
ISBN 10	0571151973
Titre	Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940-85
Auteur	Philip Larkin
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Type de reliure	Hardback
Éditeur	Faber & Faber
Année de publication	1993-02-17
Nombre de pages	736
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