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 ...

Many lovers of Philip Larkin’s poetry were surprised to hear yesterday, via the BBC, that a new poem and a trove of unpublished work by the poet had been discovered. But no one was more surprised than ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The centenary Tuesday of the birth of the late Philip Larkin invites some reflections on his gloom. “Death is no different whined at than withstood,” the poet wrote in “Aubade,” published in 1977 in ...

In a talk given to university librarians, Philip Larkin, the poet and onetime librarian at the University of Hull, said about the preservation of literary manuscripts, “Unpublished work, unfinished ...