Larkin, Philip
Overview
Works: | 569 works in 2,233 publications in 5 languages and 51,941 library holdings |
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Genres: | Poetry Criticism, interpretation, etc Biographies Interviews Fiction Jazz Reviews Personal correspondence Musical settings Essays |
Subject Headings: | Poets, English |
Roles: | Author, Performer, Editor, Compiler, Narrator, Contributor, Other, Honoree, Creator, Author of introduction, Arranger, Instrumentalist, Composer, Bibliographic antecedent, Lyricist, Illustrator, Photographer |
Classifications: | PR6023.A66, 821.914 |
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Most widely held works about
Philip Larkin
- Philip Larkin : a writer's life by Andrew Motion( Book )
- Such deliberate disguises : the art of Philip Larkin by Richard Palmer( )
- Larkin's blues : jazz, popular music, and poetry by B. J Leggett( )
- Reading Philip Larkin : selected poems by John Gilroy( )
- Collected poems by Philip Larkin( Book )
- An uncommon poet for the common man : a study of Philip Larkin's poetry by Lolette Kuby( )
- Required writing : miscellaneous pieces, 1955-1982 by Philip Larkin( Book )
- Philip Larkin's poetics : theory and practice of an English post-war poet by István D Rácz( )
- Philip Larkin by Laurence Lerner( )
- Philip Larkin by Bruce K Martin( Book )
- Selected letters of Philip Larkin, 1940-1985 by Philip Larkin( Book )
- Englishness and post-imperial space : the poetry of Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes by Milton Sarkar( )
- Philip Larkin : life, art and love by James Booth( Book )
- Philip Larkin and English poetry by Terrence Anthony Whalen( Book )
- Out of reach : the poetry of Philip Larkin by Andrew Swarbrick( Book )
- Philip Larkin by Stephen Regan( Book )
- Philip Larkin : his life's work by Janice Rossen( Book )
- The art of restraint : English poetry from Hardy to Larkin by Richard Hoffpauir( Book )
- Philip Larkin by David Timms( Book )
- Larkin at sixty by Anthony Thwaite( Book )
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Most widely held works by
Philip Larkin
The Oxford book of twentieth-century English verse by
OXFORD(
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61 editions published between 1973 and 2004 in 3 languages and held by 2,659 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Anthology of about 600 poems from more than 200 twentieth century English poets
61 editions published between 1973 and 2004 in 3 languages and held by 2,659 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Anthology of about 600 poems from more than 200 twentieth century English poets
High windows by
Philip Larkin(
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78 editions published between 1974 and 2019 in 4 languages and held by 1,706 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Philip Larkin's last collection of verse before his death in 1985, High Windows was published in 1974, and contains some of hsi best-known poems."--Book flap
78 editions published between 1974 and 2019 in 4 languages and held by 1,706 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Philip Larkin's last collection of verse before his death in 1985, High Windows was published in 1974, and contains some of hsi best-known poems."--Book flap
Collected poems by
Philip Larkin(
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104 editions published between 1988 and 2020 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,540 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of many published and previously unpublished works of the English poet
104 editions published between 1988 and 2020 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,540 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of many published and previously unpublished works of the English poet
A girl in winter by
Philip Larkin(
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86 editions published between 1942 and 2012 in 4 languages and held by 1,237 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A Girl in Winter is the moving and enigmatic story of Katherine LInd, a European woman in wartime England. The vicious winter weather has paralyzed the countryside; the emotions of Katherine are frozen as well, as fear and loneliness increase her sense of isolation. By splicing the story of Katherine's sunlit 16th summer in between the halves of a single winter day on which the suitor of her youth returns to her present life, Larkin illuminates the process by which we learn to decipher and accommodate the longings of the heart
86 editions published between 1942 and 2012 in 4 languages and held by 1,237 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A Girl in Winter is the moving and enigmatic story of Katherine LInd, a European woman in wartime England. The vicious winter weather has paralyzed the countryside; the emotions of Katherine are frozen as well, as fear and loneliness increase her sense of isolation. By splicing the story of Katherine's sunlit 16th summer in between the halves of a single winter day on which the suitor of her youth returns to her present life, Larkin illuminates the process by which we learn to decipher and accommodate the longings of the heart
The Whitsun weddings : poems by
Philip Larkin(
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58 editions published between 1964 and 1979 in 3 languages and held by 1,147 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of poems by a well-known English poet
58 editions published between 1964 and 1979 in 3 languages and held by 1,147 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of poems by a well-known English poet
Jill, a novel by
Philip Larkin(
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50 editions published between 1926 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 1,134 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The novel is set in wartime Oxford, the city in which it was written. Protagonist John Kemp is a young man from "Huddlesford" in Lancashire, who goes up to Oxford. With great sympathy it analyses his emotions at this first experience of privileged southern life (he had never been south of Crewe). Socially awkward and inexperienced, Kemp is attracted by the reckless and dissipated life of his roommate Christopher Warner, a well-off southerner who has attended a minor public school, tellingly called "Lamprey College". The eponymous Jill is Kemp's imaginary sister, whom he invents to confound Warner. Kemp then discovers a real-life Jill called Gillian, the 15-year-old cousin of Warner's friend Elizabeth. Kemp becomes infatuated with Gillian, but his advances are thwarted by Elizabeth and rebuffed by Gillian
50 editions published between 1926 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 1,134 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The novel is set in wartime Oxford, the city in which it was written. Protagonist John Kemp is a young man from "Huddlesford" in Lancashire, who goes up to Oxford. With great sympathy it analyses his emotions at this first experience of privileged southern life (he had never been south of Crewe). Socially awkward and inexperienced, Kemp is attracted by the reckless and dissipated life of his roommate Christopher Warner, a well-off southerner who has attended a minor public school, tellingly called "Lamprey College". The eponymous Jill is Kemp's imaginary sister, whom he invents to confound Warner. Kemp then discovers a real-life Jill called Gillian, the 15-year-old cousin of Warner's friend Elizabeth. Kemp becomes infatuated with Gillian, but his advances are thwarted by Elizabeth and rebuffed by Gillian
Jazz writings : essays and reviews 1940-84 by
Philip Larkin(
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11 editions published between 2001 and 2005 in English and held by 1,106 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Annotation
11 editions published between 2001 and 2005 in English and held by 1,106 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Annotation
The less deceived by
Philip Larkin(
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83 editions published between 1955 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,089 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Poems written since 1945 by a young English poet
83 editions published between 1955 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,089 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Poems written since 1945 by a young English poet
The north ship by
Philip Larkin(
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85 editions published between 1945 and 2015 in English and held by 886 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Philip Larkin's first volume of verse, The North Ship was originally published in August 1945, by the Fortune Press, and reissued in 1966 by Faber. The introduction, by Larkin himself, explains the circumstances of its publication and the influences which shaped its contents."--Book flap
85 editions published between 1945 and 2015 in English and held by 886 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Philip Larkin's first volume of verse, The North Ship was originally published in August 1945, by the Fortune Press, and reissued in 1966 by Faber. The introduction, by Larkin himself, explains the circumstances of its publication and the influences which shaped its contents."--Book flap
The complete poems by
Philip Larkin(
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16 editions published between 2012 and 2018 in English and held by 739 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This entirely new edition brings together all of Philip Larkin's poems. In addition to those that appear in Collected Poems (1988) and Early Poems and Juvenilia (2005), some unpublished pieces from Larkin's typescripts and workbooks are included, as well as verse--by turns scurrilous, satirical, affectionate, and sentimental--that had been tucked away in his letters. For the first time, Larkin's poems are given a comprehensive commentary. This draws critically upon, and substantially extends, the accumulated scholarship on Larkin, and covers closely relevant historical contexts, persons and places, allusions and echoes, and linguistic usage. Prominence is given to the poet's comments on his own poems, which often outline the circumstances that gave rise to a poem or state what he was trying to achieve. Larkin often played down his literariness, but his poetry enrichingly alludes to and echoes the writings of many others; Archie Burnett's commentary establishes him as a more complex and more literary poet than many readers have suspected
16 editions published between 2012 and 2018 in English and held by 739 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This entirely new edition brings together all of Philip Larkin's poems. In addition to those that appear in Collected Poems (1988) and Early Poems and Juvenilia (2005), some unpublished pieces from Larkin's typescripts and workbooks are included, as well as verse--by turns scurrilous, satirical, affectionate, and sentimental--that had been tucked away in his letters. For the first time, Larkin's poems are given a comprehensive commentary. This draws critically upon, and substantially extends, the accumulated scholarship on Larkin, and covers closely relevant historical contexts, persons and places, allusions and echoes, and linguistic usage. Prominence is given to the poet's comments on his own poems, which often outline the circumstances that gave rise to a poem or state what he was trying to achieve. Larkin often played down his literariness, but his poetry enrichingly alludes to and echoes the writings of many others; Archie Burnett's commentary establishes him as a more complex and more literary poet than many readers have suspected
All what jazz : a record diary 1961-1971 by
Philip Larkin(
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23 editions published between 1970 and 1989 in English and Undetermined and held by 482 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
23 editions published between 1970 and 1989 in English and Undetermined and held by 482 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Whitsun weddings by
Philip Larkin(
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45 editions published between 1964 and 2016 in 3 languages and held by 467 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This collection of poetry has been written clearly, rythmically, and thoughtfully about what all of us can understand. The poems range across a whole emotional landscape
45 editions published between 1964 and 2016 in 3 languages and held by 467 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This collection of poetry has been written clearly, rythmically, and thoughtfully about what all of us can understand. The poems range across a whole emotional landscape
Philip Larkin : the man and his work by
Dale Salwak(
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3 editions published in 1989 in English and held by 411 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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3 editions published in 1989 in English and held by 411 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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All what jazz; a record diary, 1961-68 by
Philip Larkin(
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11 editions published between 1970 and 1985 in 3 languages and held by 338 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
11 editions published between 1970 and 1985 in 3 languages and held by 338 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Oxford book of twentieth-century English verse by
Philip Larkin(
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31 editions published between 1973 and 2011 in English and held by 292 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This is an anthology of about 600 poems from more than 200 twentieth century English poets. The latest reissue of Philip Larkin's new classic anthology includes a Foreword by the poet's biographer, Andrew Motion. Successor to W.B. Yeats's Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892-1935, The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse ranges widely across this century's verse, introducing many less well-known poets among the acknowledged greats
31 editions published between 1973 and 2011 in English and held by 292 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This is an anthology of about 600 poems from more than 200 twentieth century English poets. The latest reissue of Philip Larkin's new classic anthology includes a Foreword by the poet's biographer, Andrew Motion. Successor to W.B. Yeats's Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892-1935, The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse ranges widely across this century's verse, introducing many less well-known poets among the acknowledged greats
Mass of the Apocalypse by
Peter Dickinson(
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3 editions published in 2009 in English and held by 283 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
3 editions published in 2009 in English and held by 283 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Lenoriana(
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3 editions published in 2015 in English and held by 283 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
3 editions published in 2015 in English and held by 283 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Trouble at Willow Gables and other fictions by
Philip Larkin(
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6 editions published between 2002 and 2003 in English and held by 237 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Drawing on the papers deposited after his death in the Brynmore Jones Library, Hull, this volume collects together virtually all of Philip Larkin's remaining unpublished fiction
6 editions published between 2002 and 2003 in English and held by 237 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Drawing on the papers deposited after his death in the Brynmore Jones Library, Hull, this volume collects together virtually all of Philip Larkin's remaining unpublished fiction
The complete poems of Philip Larkin by
Philip Larkin(
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13 editions published between 2012 and 2014 in English and German and held by 192 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This edition brings together all of Philip Larkin's poems. In addition to those in 'Collected Poems', and in the 'Early Poems and Juvenilia', some unpublished pieces from Larkin's typescripts and workbooks are included, as well as verse tucked away in his letters
13 editions published between 2012 and 2014 in English and German and held by 192 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This edition brings together all of Philip Larkin's poems. In addition to those in 'Collected Poems', and in the 'Early Poems and Juvenilia', some unpublished pieces from Larkin's typescripts and workbooks are included, as well as verse tucked away in his letters
President's Control of the Tariff by
Larkin(
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in Undetermined and held by 178 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
in Undetermined and held by 178 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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- Thwaite, Anthony Author of introduction Other Editor Author
- Palmer, Richard 1947- Author Editor
- Booth, James 1945- Author Editor
- Motion, Andrew 1952- Author of introduction Author
- Gilroy, John 1946- Author
- Leggett, B. J. (Bobby Joe) 1938- Author
- Hardy, Thomas 1840-1928 Author
- Kuby, Lolette Author
- Hughes, Ted 1930-1998 Contributor
- Burnett, Archie Author of introduction Commentator for written text Editor
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Authors, English Blues (Music) in literature College students Criticism and interpretation Dickinson, Emily, England England--Oxford English fiction English literature English poetry Flute and piano music, Arranged Flute music Frost, Robert, Great Britain Hardy, Thomas, Hughes, Ted, Jazz Jazz in literature Larkin, Philip Librarians Library technicians Loneliness Manners and customs Man-woman relationships Masses McMaster University Monologues with music (Instrumental ensemble) Music Music and literature Northern England Order in literature Piano music Piano music (4 hands) Poe, Edgar Allan, Poetics Poetry Poetry--Authorship Poetry--Psychological aspects Poets, English Popular music Self-control in literature Single women Social conditions Social history Social isolation Song cycles Songs (Medium voice) with piano Sound recordings University of Oxford Women refugees
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Alternative Names
Coleman, Brunette
Coleman, Brunette 1922-1985
Larkin F.
Larkin F. 1922-1985
Larkin, Filip
Larkin Ph. A.
Larkin Ph. A. 1922-1985
Larkin Philip
Larkin, Philip 1922-
Larkin, Philip 1922-1985
Larkin Philip Arthur
Larkin, Philip Arthur 1922-1985
Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin anglický básník, prozaik a jazzový kritik
Philip Larkin Brits journalist
Philip Larkin englischer Dichter, Autor und Jazzkritiker
Philip Larkin English poet, novelist, jazz critic and librarian
Philip Larkin escritor, bibliotecario y crítico de jazz inglés
Philip Larkin inglise luuletaja, kirjanik, muusikakriitik ja raamatukoguhoidja
Philip Larkin poeta i pisarz angielski
Philip Larkin poète anglais
Philip Larkin scrittore, poeta e critico musicale britannico
Φίλιπ Λάρκιν
Ларкин Ф
Ларкин Ф. 1922-1985
Ларкин Ф. А
Ларкин Ф. А. 1922-1985
Филип Ларкин
Ֆիլիպ Լարկին
פיליפ לרקין
פיליפ לרקין סופר בריטי
فلپ لارکِن
فيليب لاركن
فيليب لاركن، 1925-1985
فیلیپ لارکین نویسنده، ژورنالیست، کتابدار، و شاعر بریتانیایی
ফিলিপ্ লার্কিন
ਫਿਲਿਪ ਲਾਰਕਿਨ
பிலிப் லர்கின்
라르킨, 필립 1922-1985
라킨, 필립 1922-1985
라킨, 필립 아서 1922-1985
필립 라킨
フィリップ・ラーキン
ラーキン, フィリップ
菲利普·拉金
菲利普·拉金 英國詩人,小說家,爵士評論家和圖書館員
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