Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life
by:
Andrew Motion (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780374231682 (0374231680)
Publish date: July 1st 1993
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Pages no: 570
Edition language: English
I don't think Motion went as far as he could in nailing his subject to the mast, but his friendship with Larkin might have held him back. In fact, he is rather defensive about the poet's racism and doesn't address the contradiction between his attitude towards non-white people and his taste in music...