Bibliograph

Philip Larkin, life, art and love, James Booth

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Philip Larkin, life, art and love, James Booth

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [505]-511) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

platesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Philip Larkin

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

870098040

Responsibility statement

James Booth

Sub title

life, art and love

Summary

In one of the most comprehensive pictures of the poet yet published, James Booth examines the people, the places and the chance encounters that influenced Larkin and shaped his poetry. From Larkin's early life, his academic studies and his aspirations as a novelist, an image emerges of a reserved and gentle man greatly affected by those close to him. Delving into his fluctuating relationships with Maeve Brennan and Monica Jones, two of the many women in Larkin's life, and analysing their varied effect on his work, Booth sheds fresh light on one of Britain's best loved poets

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