As late as the 1970s, it was hard to find Philip Larkin's poetry in American bookstores. I remember searching all over Washington for his first collection, "The North Ship" (1945), before locating a ...

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 ...

Philip Larkin is to be the latest addition to Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. The Oxford graduate, who spent 30 years working as a librarian at Hull University, will have a floor stone dedicated ...

It’s naive to wish that poet and poem could somehow part ways at the page. Our appetite for poetry is often overwhelmed by a rivaling hunger for biography, and even that tends to be less of a craving ...

I first came across Philip Larkin’s poems as a schoolboy in the late nineteen-sixties, when I began taking English “A” level and my teacher Peter Way asked our class to talk about Larkin’s poems ...

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 ...

Philip Larkin (1922-85) was the English Kafka. Both writers had an unnaturally close, even crippling attachment to their parents. Misery poisoned their emotional lives, yet inspired their art, as well ...