Stewart Mottram receives funding from Arts and Humanities Research Council. The research for this article was undertaken with colleagues from the University of Hull's Larkin Centre for Poetry and ...
A recent work by the late critic Clive James about his literary idol, Philip Larkin, artfully examines the complex poet’s canon. Philip Larkin’s smallness was important; one of the consolations of his ...
August 9 marks the centenary of Philip Larkin, one of the most admired poets of the twentieth century. When Larkin died of esophageal cancer in 1985 at 63, he was England’s most beloved living poet.