Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940-85

Type

Book

Authors

Philip Larkin

ISBN 10

0571151973

ISBN 13

9780571151974

Tags

Authors, Great Britain, Letters, Selected works

Description

These letters throw light on a more complex figure than most readers will probably be expecting. Whether addressing his literary friends, who included Barbara Pym, Kinglsey Amis and John Betjeman, or those less prominently placed, Larkin shows himself to be a frank and generous letter-writer. Confessions, jokes, advice, scurrilities, pronouncements on literature and jazz, impromptu verses, published here for the first time, gossip and wisdom abound in these pages. They offer a view of a poet's progress from brash youth to rueful age, and in complementing the poems, provide a biographical document for the serious reader. - from Amzon

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