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Selected Letters of Philip Larkin 1940-1985

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In addition to his acknowledged position as one of Britain's most important poets of the post-World War II era, Philip Larkin was unquestionably one of the last great letter writers. There are over seven hundred letters in this impressive collection, dating from Larkin's late teens until close to his death at the age of sixty-three in 1985. Early letters to school friends, including the writer Kingsley Amis, form a portrait of the young artist, full of jazz, literature, and obscenities. Later correspondents include the novelist Barbara Pym (whose fictional portraits of genteel English country life Larkin so admired), Robert Conquest, Andrew Motion, and Julian Barnes.

Author: Philip Larkin (all their books in stock)
Format: Hardback
Published: 1993
Pages: 791
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, Giroux
ISBN: 9780374258290

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