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Philip (arthur) Larkin

Male : Poet & Librarian
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Coventry, Warwickshire

Date of Birth : 1922 Date of Death : 1985 Age : 63

Other Work : Librarian at the Brynmor Jones Library, Hull University from 1955. Writer on Jazz for the Daily Telegraph

Education : King Henry VIII School, Coventry & St John's College, Oxford
1945-1950
(In) Oxford Poetry 1942-1943 : Ed by Ian Davie (1943 Basil Blackwell)
(In) Poetry from Oxford in Wartime: Ed William Bell (1945 Fortune Press)
The North Ship : Poems
(1945 [1946] Fortune Press. Printed by S C Jennings, Reading)
Signed Edition offered for £575 in 1999
(1965 Fortune Press. Printed by Knowle Park Press) - unauthorised Ed (1966 Faber)
Jill
(1946 Fortune Press) (1964 Faber) (1964 St Martin's Press) - Novel
A Girl in Winter
(1947 Faber) (1962 St Martins) - Novel

1951-1960
XX Poems
(privately printed 1951) - Ltd ed 100
(In) Springtime : Ed G S Fraser & Iain Fletcher (1953 Peter Owen)
The Fantasy Poets No 21
(Fantasy Press 1954) - Ltd Ed c300
The Less Deceived
(1955 Marvell Press 7/6) (1955 Marvell Press Pb)
(In) New Poems 1955 : Ed Patric Dickinson, J C Hall & Erica Marx (1955 Michael Joseph)
(In) New Lines : An Anthology - Ed Robert Conquest (1956 Macmillan)
(In) New Poems 1956 : Ed Stephen Spender, Elizabeth Jennings & Dannie Abse (1956 M Joseph)
(In) New Poems 1957 : Ed Kathleen Nott, C Day Lewis & Thomas Blackburn (1957 M Joseph)
(In) The Guinness Book of Poetry 1956/7 (1958 Putnam)
(Ed) New Poems 1958 (1958 Michael Joseph) - with Bonamy Dobree & Louis Macneice
(In) The Guinness Book of Poetry 1958/9 (c1960 Putnam)
(In) Poetry 1960 : A critical Quarterly Supplement (1960 The Critical Quarterly)

1961-1970
(In) The Guinness Book of Poetry 1959/60 (c1961 Putnam)
(In) New Poems 1961 : A P.E.N. Anthology of Contemporary Poetry : Ed William Plomer & A Thwaite
(In) Hilary Corke (1961 Hutchinson)
(In) The Guinness Book of Poetry 1960/61 (c1962 Putnam)
(In) New Lines - II : An Anthology - Ed Robert Conquest (1963 Macmillan)
The Whitsun Weddings
(1964 Faber)
Poetry in the Making : Catalogue of an Exhibition of Poetry Manuscripts in the British Museum
(1967 Turret Books for the Arts Council & British Museum)
Poetry in the Making
(1967 Turret Books)
Poetry in the Making
(1967 Turret Books) - Ltd Ed 126 numbered/signed
Vernon Watkins, 1906-1967
(Ed by Leslie Norris) (1970 Faber) - contains essay by Larkin
All What Jazz : A Record Diary 1961-68
(1970 Faber) (1985 Revised Ed) - contains new material
The Explosion
(Poem of the Month Club 1970) - Ltd to 1000 on single sheet
(In) Sense & Sensibility in 20thC Writing : Ed Brom Weber (1970 S Illinois Univ Press)

1971-1980
(In) New Poems 1970-71 : A P.E.N. Anthology of Contemporary Poetry : Ed Alan Brownjohn,
(In) Seamus Heaney & Jon Stallworthy (1971 Hutchinson)
(In) Poetry 1972 : Ed Damian Grant (1972 Critical Quarterly Society)
(In) How Do You Want to Live ? : A report on the Human Habitat (1972 HMSO)
Introduction to Antiquarian Book Fair
(1972 London)
(Ed) The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century verse (1973 OUP)
(Chosen by) The Oxford Book of 20thC English Verse (1973 OUP)
(In) A Keepsake from the New Library at the School of Oriental & African Studies (1973 SOAS)
(In) Poetry Supplement : Compiled by Larkin for the Poetry Book Society
(1974 Poetry Book Society)
High Windows
(1974 Faber)
The Arts Council Collection of Modern Literary Manuscripts, 1963-1972
(catalogue by Jenny Stratford, preface by Larkin) (1974 Turret Books)
(Foreword) Adventures with the Irish Brigade : by C C Gunner (PP 1975) - Ltd Ed 24
Shakespeare-Preis
(1976 Stiffung, Hamburg) - contains Larkin's acceptance speech
Femmes Damnees : A Poem
(1978 Sycamore Broadsheet 27, Oxford) - single sheet
Aubade
(1980 Oregon) - Ltd Ed 250. Kathleen Gray Schallock

After 1981
Required Writing : Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982
(1983 Faber pb Original) (1984 Faber Hb)
An Enormous Yes : In Memoriam Philip Larkin 1922-1985
(1986 Peterloo £4.50)
- Edited by Harry Chambers
Collected Poems
(1988 Faber)
Collected Poems
(1990 Faber £8.99) - ed by Anthony Thwaite
Selected Letters of Philip Larkin 1940-1985 : Ed by Anthony Thwaite
(1992 Faber)
(Ed) James Booth : Philip Larkin - Trouble at Willow Gables & Other Fictions (2002 Murray £20)
Early Poems and Juvenilia
(2005 Faber £25) - Edited by A T Tolley

READING
B C Blomfield : Philip Larkin - A Bibliography 1933-76
(1979 Faber)
Larkin at Sixty
(Ed by Anthony Thwaite) (1982 Faber)
An Enormous Yes : in Memoriam Philip Larkin
(1986 Peterloo Poets)
- contains 10 unpublished works by Larkin
A Tolley : My Proper Ground - A Study of the Work of Philip Larkin
(1991 Edinburgh UP)
Philip Larkin : A Writer's Life by Andrew Motion
(1993 Faber)
A T Tolley : Larkin at Work
(1998 Hull UP £10.95)
Maeve Brennan : The Philip Larkin I Knew
(2002 Manchester UP £40 & £14.99)
B C Blomfield : Philip Larkin - A Bibliography 1933-1994
(2002 Faber £45)
[A Revised and Enlarged Edition]

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