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Bookmark or Share- Philip Larkin: The Voice of Post-War England - Poem AnalysisPhilip Larkin was a 20th-century English poet, novelist, and librarian. He is widely regarded as one of the most significant voices in post-war British poetry. Larkin’s work addresses themes of love, mortality, and the passing of time. Poet PDF Guide Poems Cite.
- The Best Philip Larkin Poems Everyone Should ReadTrying to create a ‘top ten’ definitive list of Philip Larkin’s best poems is impossible, not least because each Larkin fan will come up with a slightly different list. However, we’ve tried our best to bring together some of Larkin’s most classic poems here.
- Philip Larkin | Poetry FoundationPhilip Larkin was born in Coventry, England in 1922. He earned his BA from St. John’s College, Oxford, where he befriended novelist and poet Kingsley Amis and finished with First Class Honors in English. After graduating, Larkin undertook professional studies to become a librarian. He worked in…
- Philip Larkin: England’s most miserable genius? - BBCPhilip Larkin remains one of Britain’s most controversial – and loved – poets. His colleague James Booth looks back. Thirty years after his death, the poet Philip Larkin is finally to be...
- Philip Larkin | Modernist, Post-WWII, English | BritannicaPhilip Larkin (born August 9, 1922, Coventry, Warwickshire, England—died December 2, 1985, Kingston upon Hull) was the most representative and highly regarded of the poets who gave expression to a clipped, antiromantic sensibility prevalent in English verse in the 1950s.
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