Larkin, Philip

Overview

Works:	569 works in 2,233 publications in 5 languages and 51,941 library holdings
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

Publication Timeline

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( Book )

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( Book )

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( Book )

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( Book )

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( Book )

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( Book )

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( )

11 editions published between 2001 and 2005 in English and held by 1,106 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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The less deceived by Philip Larkin( Book )

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( Book )

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( Book )

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( Book )

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( Book )

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( Book )

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( Book )

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( Book )

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( )

3 editions published in 2009 in English and held by 283 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Lenoriana( )

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( Book )

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( Book )

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( )

in Undetermined and held by 178 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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