Philip Larkin (98 page)

    
7.
   http://senatehouseoccupation.wordpress.com/1968/07/02/are-examinations-really-necessary/ (accessed 10 December 2010).

    
8.
   19 August 1968.
SL
,
pp. 403–4.

    
9.
   16 November 1968. Not in
LM
.

  
10.
   24 March 1973.
SL
,
p. 473.

  
11.
   16 November 1968. Not in
LM
.

  
12.
   Ibid. (insertion).

  
13.
   
Critical Quarterly
2.4 (Winter 1960), p. 351; 3.4 (Winter 1961), p. 309; 8.2 (Summer 1966), p. 173; 10.1–2 (Spring–Summer 1968), p. 55. Larkin also published in
Critical Quarterly
a review, ‘Mrs Hardy’s memories’, 4.1 (Spring 1962), pp. 75–9, and his essay, ‘Wanted: Good Hardy Critic’, 8.2 (Summer 1966), pp. 174–9.

  
14.
   http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj70/amis.htm.

  
15.
   4 October 1968.
SL
,
pp. 404–5.

  
16.
   17 October 1968.
SL
,
p. 406.

  
17.
   
LM
,
p. 394.

  
18.
   To Kingsley Amis, 8 April 1969. Not in
SL
.

  
19.
   
LM
,
p. 385.

  
20.
   Trevor Jarvis, personal communication, 2010.

  
21.
   University of Hull Collection, The History Centre, Hull: U DJH.

  
22.
   John Saville,
Memoirs from the Left
(London: Merlin Press, 2003), pp. 138, 139, 145.

  
23.
   A BBC radio quiz, based on literary quotations, starring Frank Muir and Denis Norden. It ran from 1956 until 1990.

  
24.
   In
LM
(384) the phrases ‘aren’t the 2 songs lovely together! My eyes fill with tears’ are inadvertently omitted.

  
25.
   Ibid.

  
26.
   Ibid., p. 387.

  
27.
   To Monica Jones, 15 January 1969.
Complete Poems
, p. 461.

  
28.
   See http://www.britannica.com/bps/additionalcontent/18/23072911/The-Decline-of-the-AngloAmerican-Middle-East-19611969 (accessed 12 April 2011).

  
29.
   Mitchell left the army later in the year and unlike officers of similar rank was not awarded an OBE. The final evacuation of troops from Aden took place on 8 November 1967. Mitchell capitalized on the glamour of this exploit in a populist campaign to become a Conservative MP.

  
30.
   To Monica Jones. 5 August 1953.
LM
, p. 104.

  
31.
   Interview with the
Observer
,
RW
, p. 52.

  
32.
   Blake Morrison,
The Movement: English Poetry and Fiction of the 1950s
(London: Methuen, 1980), p. 256.

  
33.
   Trevor Jarvis, personal communication, 2010.

  
34.
   Motion, p. 381.

  
35.
   To Conquest, 7 April 1969.
SL
, p. 413.

  
36.
   Motion, p. 380.

  
37.
   To the Revd A. H. Quinn, 3 February 1969.
Complete Poems
, p. 641.

  
38.
   8 October 1969.
SL
,
p. 420.

  
39.
   To Maeve Brennan, 4 September 1969. Motion, p. 393.

  
40.
   Motion, p. 390. The official opening by the University Chancellor, Lord Cohen of Birkenhead, took place on 12 December 1970.

  
41.
   To Eva Larkin, 5 October 1969.

  
42.
   Betty Mackereth, personal communication, 7 January 2014.

  
43.
   
SL
,
p. 427.

  
44.
   Motion, p. 404.

  
45.
   Oxford University Rugby Football Club.

  
46.
   To Barbara Pym, 29 May 1971.
SL
,
pp. 438–9.

  
47.
   Anthony Thwaite, personal communication, 2010.

  
48.
   20 January 1966.
SL
,
p. 380.

  
49.
   W. B. Yeats (ed.),
The Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892–1935
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1936), pp. xxxiv, xv.

  
50.
   4 June 1966.
LM
,
p. 361.

  
51.
   ‘“A great parade of single poems” – Philip Larkin, poet, librarian and anthologist, discusses his
Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse
with Anthony Thwaite’,
Listener
, 12 April 1973, p. 472.

  
52.
   Motion (p. 431) reaches different conclusions by counting numbers of poems rather than numbers of lines.

  
53.
   22 November 1951.
LM
,
pp. 71–2.

  
54.
   
SL
,
p. 401.

  
55.
   5 August 1953.
LM
,
p. 104.

  
56.
   
OBTCEV
, p. v.

  
57.
   Yeats (ed.),
The Oxford Book of Modern Verse
, p. xlii.

  
58.
   The Republic of Ireland was also a member of the Commonwealth until 1949.

  
59.
   Walcott’s inclusion was presumably justified on the technical grounds that at the time of publication, 1973, St Lucia had not yet gained its independence from Britain. Had the volume been published six years later Walcott would presumably have been excluded as a ‘Commonwealth writer’.

  
60.
   
OBTCEV
,
p. v.

  
61.
   
OBTCEV
, no. 283. Larkin’s response to Cannan’s work was critically scrupulous. He wrote to Monica that one of her poems was ‘good by accident, wonderfully evocative of the first war [. . .] They probably aren’t any good really.’
LM
,
p
.
413.

  
62.
   
OBTCEV
, p. v.

  
63.
   Judy Egerton, interview with the author, 17 December 2010.

  
64.
   
SL
,
p. 435.

  
65.
   18 January 1973.
SL
, p. 472.