Philip Larkin, a 20th Century poet, was primarily a Librarian at Hull University, but also wrote Jazz reviews and novels. He died of throat cancer and refused the Poet Laureate position as he was a very drawn-in and private man; and not a fan of any kind of fame. The Whitsun Weddings is a collection...
IntroductionThe North Ship--'All catches alight'--'This was your place of birth, this daytime palace'--'The moon is full tonight'--Dawn--Conscript--'Kick up the fire, and let the flames break loose'--'The horns of the morning'--Winter--'Climbing the hill within the deafening wind'--'Within the dream...
bookshelves: essays, philosophy, nonfiction, published-2007, winter-20132014, tbr-busting-2014, sciences, fraudio Read from January 03 to 05, 2014 The Portable Atheist read by Nicolas Ballanthology of atheist writing through the ages.1. Introduction by Christopher Hitchens2. Lucretius: from the N...
On a wintery Saturday in wartime Britain, Katherine Lind remembers a summer holiday she spent with an English boy and his family. Today, she might hear from him again.Do those who cultivate a social detatchment live life to the full? Low 3, something of a nothing.Background music? all over Ella Fitz...
Classical Serialhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qfz6Duration: 58 minutesFirst broadcast: Sunday 31 March 2013 BBC Blurbs: Dramatised for the first time on BBC Radio 4 by Robin Brooks (Ulysses, I Claudius, The Chandler Season). Starring Samuel Barnett as John Kemp. With Jessica Raine , Richard...
I fully admit that I know very little about poetry. Very little. But what I've now read of Philip Larkin's work really didn't grab me at all. At times, it irritated the heck out of me. (This started with a nasty little poem called "To My Wife" and never really went away. Also, as far as I could tell...
Philip Larkin in Oxford, 1943Philip Larkin opens A Girl in Winter with a chapter, three paragraphs long, in which he describes England during World War II, suffering through a stormy winter, its people trying to carry on daily life through numbness and deprivation:[The snow] lay in ditches and in ho...
Reading these poems is like being a stunned Canadian tourist visiting famous European sites for the first time. Everyone else has been there, everyone else knows how beyond marvelous or sublime it is, but hey, this is my first time, and I want to shout, "Look how terrific this is!!", as if it is th...
While he's much better known as a poet, it seems that Philip Larkin wrote a couple of novels as well. Jill tells the story of a young man, John Kemp, away from home for the first time, going up to Oxford to study English literature.Published a few years after Larkin left Oxford, there appear to be m...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00vkpk6/Book_of_the_Week_Letters_to_Monica_Episode_1/blurb - Philip Larkin's Letters to Monica span the forty years of their relationship from 1946 when they met, until Larkin's death in 1985. They only came to light after Monica Jones died in 2001, when nearly ...
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