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- Philip_Larkin abstract "Philip Arthur Larkin, CH, CBE, FRSL (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist and librarian. His first book of poetry, The North Ship, was published in 1945, followed by two novels, Jill (1946) and A Girl in Winter (1947), and he came to prominence in 1955 with the publication of his second collection of poems, The Less Deceived, followed by The Whitsun Weddings (1964) and High Windows (1974). He contributed to The Daily Telegraph as its jazz critic from 1961 to 1971, articles gathered together in All What Jazz: A Record Diary 1961–71 (1985), and he edited The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse (1973). He was the recipient of many honours, including the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. He was offered, but declined, the position of Poet Laureate in 1984, following the death of John Betjeman.After graduating from Oxford in 1943 with a first in English language and literature, Larkin became a librarian. It was during the thirty years he worked with distinction as university librarian at the Brynmor Jones Library at the University of Hull that he produced the greater part of his published work. His poems are marked by what Andrew Motion calls a very English, glum accuracy about emotions, places, and relationships, and what Donald Davie described as lowered sights and diminished expectations. Eric Homberger (echoing Randall Jarrell) called him "the saddest heart in the post-war supermarket"—Larkin himself said that deprivation for him was what daffodils were for Wordsworth. Influenced by W. H. Auden, W. B. Yeats, and Thomas Hardy, his poems are highly structured but flexible verse forms. They were described by Jean Hartley, the ex-wife of Larkin's publisher George Hartley (the Marvell Press), as a "piquant mixture of lyricism and discontent", though anthologist Keith Tuma writes that there is more to Larkin's work than its reputation for dour pessimism suggests.Larkin's public persona was that of the no-nonsense, solitary Englishman who disliked fame and had no patience for the trappings of the public literary life. The posthumous publication by Anthony Thwaite in 1992 of his letters triggered controversy about his personal life and political views, described by John Banville as hair-raising, but also in places hilarious. Lisa Jardine called him a "casual, habitual racist, and an easy misogynist", but the academic John Osborne argued in 2008 that "the worst that anyone has discovered about Larkin are some crass letters and a taste for porn softer than what passes for mainstream entertainment". Despite the controversy Larkin was chosen in a 2003 Poetry Book Society survey, almost two decades after his death, as Britain's best-loved poet of the previous 50 years, and in 2008 The Times named him Britain's greatest post-war writer.In 1973 a Coventry Evening Telegraph reviewer referred to Larkin as "the bard of Coventry", but in 2010, 25 years after his death, it was Larkin's adopted home city, Kingston upon Hull, that commemorated him with the Larkin 25 Festival which culminated in the unveiling of a statue of Larkin by Martin Jennings on 2 December 2010, the 25th anniversary of his death.".
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- Philip_Larkin deathDate "1985-12-02".
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- Philip_Larkin memorials "Martin Jennings bronze statue, Paragon Interchange, Hull".
- Philip_Larkin name "Larkin, Philip Arthur".
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- Philip_Larkin notableWorks "The Whitsun Weddings , High Windows".
- Philip_Larkin occupation "Poet, librarian, novelist, jazz critic".
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- Philip_Larkin parents "Sydney Larkin , Eva Emily Day".
- Philip_Larkin placeOfBirth "Coventry, Warwickshire , England".
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- Philip_Larkin quote "'You look as if you wished the place in Hell,' My friend said, 'judging from your face.' 'Oh well, I suppose it's not the place's fault,' I said. 'Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.'".
- Philip_Larkin quote "A sense of life lived according to love.".
- Philip_Larkin quote "All courages on these despairs,".
- Philip_Larkin quote "And are required lastly to give up pride,".
- Philip_Larkin quote "And kneel upon the stone,".
- Philip_Larkin quote "And say why it never worked for me".
- Philip_Larkin quote "And sways them on in a sort of sense".
- Philip_Larkin quote "And the last difficult pride in being humble.".
- Philip_Larkin quote "And where and when I shall myself die.".
- Philip_Larkin quote "As all they might have done had they been loved.".
- Philip_Larkin quote "Being brave Lets no one off the grave. Death is no different whined at than withstood.".
- Philip_Larkin quote "By loving others, but across most it sweeps".
- Philip_Larkin quote "Convinced he was he should be added to!".
- Philip_Larkin quote "Dockery, now:".
- Philip_Larkin quote "For we have tried".
- Philip_Larkin quote "I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.".
- Philip_Larkin quote "In everyone there sleeps".
- Philip_Larkin quote "In time the curtain-edges will grow light.".
- Philip_Larkin quote "Isolate rather this element".
- Philip_Larkin quote "Life is an immobile, locked,".
- Philip_Larkin quote "Making all thought impossible but how".
- Philip_Larkin quote "Of . . . No, that's not the difference: rather how".
- Philip_Larkin quote "Of what he wanted, and been capable".
- Philip_Larkin quote "Only nineteen, he must have taken stock".
- Philip_Larkin quote "That brings what you'll get.".
- Philip_Larkin quote "That spreads through other lives like a tree".
- Philip_Larkin quote "The unbeatable slow machine".
- Philip_Larkin quote "Three-handed struggle between".
- Philip_Larkin quote "Till then I see what's really always there:".
- Philip_Larkin quote "To me it was dilution.".
- Philip_Larkin quote "To some it means the difference they could make".
- Philip_Larkin quote "Unresting death, a whole day nearer now,".
- Philip_Larkin quote "Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare.".
- Philip_Larkin quote "Why did he think adding meant increase?".
- Philip_Larkin quote "Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork And drive the brute off?".