Philip Arthur Larkin, CH, CBE, FRSL, (9 August 1922 - 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist and jazz critic. He spent his working life as a university librarian and was offered the Poet Laureateship following the death of John Betjeman, but declined the post. Larkin is commonly regarded as one of the greatest English poets of the latter half of the twentieth century. In 2003 Larkin was chosen as the "nation's best-loved poet" in a survey by the Poetry Book Society. Wikipedia
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Many thanks to Maggie Hannan and Hull City Arts for working with the Larkin Centre and helping to coordinate the MA and Larkin Centre workshops with the readings at ZEST. www.hull.ac.uk/english/events/larkin_centre/
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Philip Larkin , after a stint at Oxford during the war, lived a brief life in unfashionable places like Leicester, Belfast and finally ended up dying in Hull. The appearance of two biographies in the short span of time since his death in 1985 suggests th www.rumoredcity.com/first_boredom_then_fear.html
The power of Philip Larkin's poems stem from making the mundane magnificent, imbuing the everyday world with emotion and feeling. www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/L/larkin/index.html
