Philip Larkin (1922 - 1985)

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Philip Larkin was born in 1922 in Coventry, England. He attended St. John's College, Oxford. His first book of poetry, The North Ship, was published in 1945 and, though not particularly strong on its own, is notable insofar as certain passages foreshadow the unique sensibility and maturity that characterizes his later work. In 1946, Larkin discovered the poetry of Thomas Hardy and became a great admirer of his poetry, learning from Hardy how to make the commonplace and often dreary details o.. Continue..

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High Windows

This Be The Verse

Annus Mirabilis

The Whitsun Weddings

Aubade

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	Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

- Philip Larkin

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