Results for "philip larkin"

Amis at 100: a master satirist without honour

It’s time to appreciate Kingsley Amis — flaws and all

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The Queen’s Jubilee Book List: why did they bother?

The choices show a lack of levity, imagination and courage

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Should we take Kingsley Amis more seriously as a poet?

The acclaimed novelist harboured dreams of writing verse

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How to become a cult writer

What does it take for an author to become idolised way beyond their literary merit?

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Did Mary Whitehouse have a point?

The moral campaigner is having another moment in the spotlight

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Why hasn’t Philip Larkin been cancelled?

When Larkin is inevitably denounced, I’ll be reading his forbidden work by torchlight

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Sharing the pleasure in poetry

James Booth reviews ‘Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin’

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The joys and misery of Monica

This is not only an objective biography by a distinguished academic, it is also a warm personal memoir

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Like father, like son

Philip Larkin’s long association with Kingsley and Martin Amis resulted in the poet being misrepresented and misunderstood

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We should be afraid of Virginia Woolf

Woolf’s statue is the latest to come under review

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