biography
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Larkin, Philip (Arthur)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1922–85)
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| biography:
| Poet, librarian, and jazz critic, born in Coventry, West Midlands, C England, UK. He studied at Oxford - an experience on which he based his first novel, Jill (1946). A Girl in Winter (1947) was his only other novel. His early poems appeared in the anthology, Poetry from Oxford in Wartime (1944), and in a collection The North Ship (1945). XX Poems was published privately in 1950. He became librarian at the University of Hull in 1955, and further collections appeared at regular intervals, including The Less Deceived (1955), The Whitsun Weddings (1964) and High Windows (1974). Collected Poems was published posthumously (1988) and became a best seller. His articles on jazz were collected in All What Jazz? (1970), and his essays in Required Writing (1983). His Letters, many of them addressed to his friend Kingsley Amis, were published in 1992, and the first biography of his life in 1993. |
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