Philip Larkin (105 page)

Rowland, Yvonne, ‘Remembering Monica Jones in Leicester’,
About Larkin
30 (October 2010), pp. 18–19.

Saville, John,
Memoirs from the Left
(London: Merlin Press, 2003).

Sharpe, Norman, and A. K. B. Evans (eds), ‘Monica at Leicester’,
About Larkin
12 (October 2001), pp. 17–19.

Siverns (Bowman), Ruth, ‘Philip Larkin at Wellington 1943–1946’,
About Larkin
1 (April 1996), pp. 4–5.

Thwaite, Anthony (ed.),
Larkin at Sixty
(London: Faber & Faber, 1982).

Watt, R. J. C., ‘“Scragged by embryo-Leavises”: Larkin reading his poems’,
Critical Survey
1.2 (1989), pp. 172–5.

5. Biographies

Bradford, Richard,
First Boredom, Then Fear: The Life of Philip Larkin
(London: Peter Owen, 2005).

——,
The Odd Couple: The Curious Friendship between Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin
(London: Robson Press, 2012).

Motion, Andrew,
Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life
(London: Faber & Faber, 1993).

6. Select Secondary Sources

About Larkin
(Journal of the Philip Larkin Society) (April 1996–April 2014); nos. 1–6 ed. Jean Hartley; nos. 7–14 ed. James Booth; no. 15 ed. Jean Hartley and Maeve Brennan; no. 16 ed. Jean Hartley; nos. 17–21 ed. Belinda Hakes; no. 22 ed. Janet Brennan; nos. 23–37 ed. James Booth and Janet Brennan.

Alvarez, A., ‘The New Poetry, or Beyond the Gentility Principle’, Introduction to
The New Poetry
(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1962), pp. 17–28.

Amis, Martin, ‘Philip Larkin, His Work and Life’, introduction to
Philip Larkin: Poems
(London: Faber & Faber, 2011), pp. ix–xxiii.

Avis (Strang), Patricia,
Playing the Harlot or Mostly Coffee
(London: Virago, 1996).

Baron, Michael (ed.),
Larkin with Poetry: English Association Conference Papers
(Leicester: English Association, 1997).

Bennett, Alan, ‘Alas! Deceived’, in Stephen Regan (ed.),
Philip Larkin: Contemporary Critical Essays
(Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997), pp. 226–49.

Blackburn, Simon, ‘English Tombs and Larkin’,
About Larkin
36 (October 2013), pp. 7–11.

Booth, James, ‘The Card-Players’, in Michael Hanke (ed.),
Fourteen English Sonnets: Critical Essays
, Studien zur anglistischen Literatur- und Sprachwissenschaft (28) (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2007), pp. 169–77.

——, ‘Competing Pulses: Secular and Sacred in Hughes, Larkin and Plath’,
Critical Survey
12.3 (2000), pp. 4–27.

——, ‘Larkin as Animal Poet’,
About Larkin
22 (October 2006), pp. 5–9.

—— (ed.),
New Larkins for Old
(Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000).

——,
Philip Larkin: The Poet’s Plight
(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).

——,
Philip Larkin: Writer
(Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992).

——, ‘“Snooker” at the Seaside: The Birthday Walk in Scarborough’,
About Larkin
16 (October 2003), pp. 29–31.

——, ‘Sydney Larkin’s Little Hitler’,
About Larkin
29 (April 2010), p. 27.

——, ‘The Turf-cutter and the Nine-to-Five Man: Heaney, Larkin, and “the Spiritual Intellect’s Great Work”’,
Twentieth-Century Literature
43.4 (Winter 1997), pp. 369–93.

Brennan, Maeve, ‘James Ballard Sutton 1921–1997’,
About Larkin
5 (April 1988), pp. 24–7.

Bristow, Joseph, ‘The Obscenity of Philip Larkin’,
Critical Inquiry
21 (Autumn 1994), pp. 176–7.

Burnett, Archie, ‘Biography and Poetry: Philip Larkin’,
About Larkin
36 (October 2013), pp. 7–18.

Carey, John, ‘The Two Philip Larkins’, in James Booth (ed.),
New Larkins for Old
(Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000), pp. 51–65.

Castle, Terry, ‘The Lesbianism of Philip Larkin’, in Zachary Leader (ed.),
The Movement Reconsidered: Essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, Davie, and their Contemporaries
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 79–105.

Chesters, Graham, ‘Larkin and Baudelaire’s Damned Women’, in James Dolamore (ed.),
Making Connections: Essays in French Culture and Society in Honour of Philip Thody
(Bern: Peter Lang, 1999), pp. 81–92.

——, ‘Tireless Play, Speculations on Larkin’s “Absences”’, Richard Bales (ed.),
Challenges of Translation in French Literature: Studies and Poems in Honour of Peter Broome
(Bern: Peter Lang, 2005), pp. 47–60.

Conquest, Robert, Introduction to
New Lines: An Anthology
, ed. Robert Conquest (London: Macmillan, 1962), pp. v–xviii.

——,
‘New
Lines
, Movements, and Modernisms’, in Zachary Leader
(ed.),
The Movement Reconsidered: Essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, Davie, and their Contemporaries
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 307–16.

D’Arch Smith, Timothy,
R. A. Caton and the Fortune Press: A Memoir and a Hand-List
(revised edn, North Pomfret, Vermont: Asphodel Editions, 2004).

Dawson (Arnott), Winifred, ‘Photograph Albums Revisited’,
About Larkin
13 (April 2002), p. 4.

Dyson, Brian (ed.),
The Modern Academic Library: Essays in Memory of Philip Larkin
(London: Library Association, 1988).

Everett, Barbara, ‘After Symbolism’,
Essays in Criticism
, 1980; reprinted in
Poets in their Time
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986), pp. 230–44.

Foster, Paul, Trevor Brighton and Patrick Garland,
An Arundel Tomb
, Otter Memorial Paper 1 (Chichester: Chichester Institute, 1987).

Gilpin, George, ‘Patricia Avis and Philip Larkin’, in James Booth (ed.),
New Larkins for Old
(Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000), pp. 66–78.

Gresham, Ross, ‘Larkin on the
Lucky Jim
Manuscript’,
About Larkin
26 (October 2008), pp. 11–13.

Holt, Hazel,
A Lot to Ask: A Life of Barbara Pym
(London: Macmillan, 1990).

Hughes, Ted,
Letters of Ted Hughes
, ed. Christopher Reid (London: Faber & Faber, 2007).

Ingelbien, Raphaël, ‘The Uses of Symbolism: Larkin and Eliot’, in James Booth (ed.),
New Larkins for Old
(Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000), pp. 130–43.

Kelly, Terry, ‘The Black Album’, review of Martin Amis’s
Philip Larkin: Poems
,
About Larkin
32 (October 2011), pp. 33–4.

Kriewald, Gary, ‘Wasteful, weak, propitiatory poems: Larkin apologizes to the animals’,
About Larkin
28 (October 2009), pp. 29–33.

Leader, Zachary (ed.),
The Letters of Kingsley Amis
(London: HarperCollins, 2000).

——,
The Life of Kingsley Amis
(London: Jonathan Cape, 2006)

—— (ed.),
The Movement Reconsidered: Essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, Davie, and their Contemporaries
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).

Leggett, B. J.,
Larkin’s Blues: Jazz, Popular Music and Poetry
(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999).

Lodge, David, ‘Philip Larkin: The Metonymic Muse’, in Stephen Regan (ed.),
Philip Larkin: Contemporary Critical Essays
(Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997),
pp. 71–82.

Lomax, Marion, ‘Larkin with Women’, in Michael Baron (ed.),
Larkin with Poetry: English Association Conference Papers
(Leicester: English Association, 1997), pp. 31–46.

Longley, Edna, ‘Poète Maudit Manqué’, in George Hartley (ed.),
Philip Larkin – A Tribute: 1922–1985
(London: Marvell Press, 1988), pp. 220–31.

Lowe, N. F., ‘Bruce Montgomery and Philip Larkin: Evidence of a ruptured relationship’,
About Larkin
6 (October 1998), pp. 11–12.

Marshall, Oliver, ‘A Letter from Loughborough’,
About Larkin
15 (April 2003), pp. 18–19.

Morrison, Blake,
The Movement: English Poetry and Fiction of the 1950s
(London: Methuen, 1980).

——, ‘“Still Going On, All of It”: The Movement in the 1950s and the Movement Today’, in Zachary Leader (ed.),
The Movement Reconsidered: Essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, Davie, and their Contemporaries
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 16–33.

Orwin, James, ‘Serious Earth: Philip Larkin’s American Tapes’,
About Larkin
25 (April 2008), pp. 20–4.