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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: List of Poems by Philip Larkin, This Be the Verse, the North Ship, High Windows, the Less Deceived, Aubade, Collected Poems - 2003 Edition, the Whitsun Weddings, Mr Bleaney, an Arundel Tomb, Mcmxiv, High Windows, Collected Poems - 1988 Edition, Days. Excerpt:Detail of Arundel Tomb in Chichester Cathedral Full length view of Arundel Tomb Additional view of Arundel Tomb "An Arundel Tomb" is a poem by Philip Larkin , published in 1964 in his collection The Whitsun Weddings . It comprises 7 verses of 6 lines each, each rhyming abbcac . The poem describes a medieval tomb, which can be found in Chichester cathedral; the tomb is of a medieval lord, (Richard FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel ), and his lady, (Eleanor of Lancaster, his 2nd wife), with their dogs at their feet. He has his right hand ungloved and her right hand rests lightly upon his. In an audio recording of the poem, Larkin states that the effigies were unlike any he had ever seen before and that he found them "extremely affecting." Larkin uses this scene to muse on time, mortality and the limits of earthly love. It begins thus:- Side by side, their faces blurred , The earl and countess lie in stone, and concludes Our almost-instinct almost true: What will survive of us is love. Most commentators see this final couplet as a positive affirmation, but some others see in it a lugubrious Larkin-statement of the opposite (namely a weak statement of hope in the face of reality). The poem is one of the three read at Larkin's memorial. See also (online edition) References (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at An aubade is a poem or song of or about lovers separating at dawn. Aubade has also been defined as "a song or instrumental composition concerning, accompanying, or evoking daybreak". The form has some dramatic... ... Read more

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Chapters: Philip Larkin, Frank Whittle, Kevin Warwick, Lady Godiva, Nigel Hawthorne, Ellen Terry, Clint Mansell, Henry Parkes, Laura Davies, Ian Bell, Cyril Connolly, Murder of Lindsay Hawker, Graham Alexander, Mo Mowlam, Ian Evatt, Cal Crutchlow, Greg Abbott, Clive Owen, Julianne Regan, Delia Derbyshire, Bobby Gould, Bobbie Clarke, Pete Waterman, Graham Joyce, Hazel O'connor, Billie Myers, Marc Bridge-Wilkinson, Frank Ifield, Gary Mcsheffrey, Iyseden Christie, Andrew White, Tom Cartwright, Vince Hill, Bob Ainsworth, Lee Child, Tom Mann, James Quinn, David Moorcroft, Edgar Bainton, Marlon Devonish, Terry Hall, Rowena Wallace, Luke Mccormick, Elliot Evans, Billie Whitelaw, Neil Back, Edith Atkins, Bernie James, Ian Muir, Rory May, Panjabi Mc, David Foy, Mary Creagh, Michael Brady, Levi Fox, Shane Geraghty, Lisa Dillon, Danny Grewcock, Nehemiah Grew, Steve Beaton, Dietmar Bruck, Declan Bennett, Kenneth Hegan, Andy Goode, Margot James, Barry John, Kelvin Langmead, Martin Atkins, Jerry Dammers, Jill Phipps, Kieran Conry, Paul Sugrue, Les Bruton, Jon Gaunt, Melissa Graham, Scott Garner, Sally Jones, Fred Gardner, Josh Gowling, Bryan Klug, Arthur Rotherham, Remo Camerota, Rikki Bains, Carmen Silvera, Errol Christie, Craig Herbert, James Green, Paul King (Musician, Vj), Roddy Radiation, John Davenport, Peter Eugene Ball, Brian Matthew, John Thornton, Richard Keys, Geoff Thompson, George Turnbull, Sid Webb, Harry Edwards, Frederick Gibberd, Troy Douglin, Terence Brain, Capel Bond, Leon Lloyd, Dave Anderson, Gus Chambers, Fred Chaplin, Mal Roche, Keren Barratt, Charles Kay, Paul Scott-Lee, David Duckham, James Sutton, Tony Clarke, Malcolm Rose, Jordan Clarke, William Tallon, William Owen, Alex Sim-Wise, Gerard Rotherham, Stuart Giddings, Ivor Preece, James Ormond, James Collins, Bill Edwards, Chris Jury, Marcus Hall, Peter Ho Davies, Tom Wood, George Cook, Cortez Belle, Nick Farquharson, Steve Bendall, Darren Garforth, Paul Clews, Geo...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=43923 ... Read more

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Chapters: Philip Larkin, John Joubert, Aaron Sloman, Jacob Bronowski, Claire Griffiths, Subrata K. Mitra, Richard Hoggart, Carol Rumens, Jonathan Israel, Jennifer Wilby, Raymond L. Brett, Martin Shaw, Eric Grove, John Saville, Alister Hardy, Philip Norton, Baron Norton of Louth, Rob S. Miles, Leslie Martin, Hanna Neumann, A. G. Dickens, George William Gray, Anthony Hedges, Rachel Trickett, Robert J. Elliott, Sherard Vines, Stuart Palmer, Matthew Pateman, David Starkey. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 125. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Philip Larkin -Philip Larkin was born on 9 August 1922 in Coventry, the only son and younger child of Sydney Larkin (18841948), who came from Lichfield, and his wife, Eva Emily Day (18861977) of Epping. The family lived in Radford, Coventry until Larkin was five years old, and then moved to a large three-storey middle-class house, complete with servants quarters in Manor Road, near to Coventry railway station and King Henry VIII School. Having survived the bombings of the Second World War their former house in Manor Road was demolished in the 1960s to make way for a road modernisation programme, the construction of an inner ring road. His sister Catherine, known as Kitty, was 10 years older than him. His father, a self-made man who had risen to be Coventry City Treasurer, was a singular individual who combined a love of literature with an enthusiasm for Nazism, and had attended two Nuremberg rallies during the mid-'30s. He introduced his son to the works of Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce and above all D. H. Lawrence. His mother was a nervous and passive woman, dominated by her husband. Larkin's parents' former Radford council house overlooking a small spinney, once their garden. (photo 2008)Larkin's early childhood was in some respects unus...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=43923 ... Read more

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Chapters: G. E. Moore, John Maynard Keynes, Bertrand Russell, Charlie Chaplin, John Stuart Mill, Francis Crick, Philip Larkin, Thomas Henry Huxley, Terry Pratchett, T. H. White, Fred Hoyle, Ford Madox Ford, E. M. Forster, Robert Bolt, David Attenborough, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Martin Amis, Cecil Rhodes, Julian Huxley, Daniel Day-Lewis, Charles Darwin, Noel Gallagher, Arthur C. Clarke, Herbert Spencer, Anthony Kenny, Simon le Bon, John Collier, Herbert Read, Sid Watkins, Emilia Fox, Mitch Benn, Donald Watson, Henry Labouchère, Harry Snell, 1st Baron Snell, David Baboulene, George Holyoake, Frederick James Furnivall, Leslie Stephen, Laura Marling, Frederick Gowland Hopkins, Michael Ruse, Michael Foster, Allan Beswick, Arnold Hugh Martin Jones, Hertha Marks Ayrton, Richard Pankhurst, Robert John Lechmere Guppy, Patrick Bateson, Charles Cayley, Stephen Oliver, A. W. Benn. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 582. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Charles Robert Darwin FRS (12 February 1809 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist who showed that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection. He published his theory with compelling evidence for evolution in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species. The scientific community and much of the general public came to accept evolution as a fact in his lifetime, but it was not until the emergence of the modern evolutionary synthesis from the 1930s to the 1950s that a broad consensus developed that natural selection was the basic mechanism of evolution. In modified form, Darwin's scientific discovery is the unifying theory of the life sciences, explaining the diversity of life. Darwin's early inter...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=8145410 ... Read more

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A chronological survey combining biographical and contextual information with a reading of all Larkin's work, from his well-known poetry and prose to his jazz writing. It traces the literary influences on Larkin's early style and outlines the importance of the Movement to his development. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Philip Larkin, Stephen Wolfram, Robert Graves, Kingsley Amis, Alfred Edward Housman, Jethro Tull, Stephen Bachiler, William Laud, William Juxon, Abhisit Vejjajiva, Tony Blair, Lester B. Pearson, Alan Duncan, Gilbert Murray, Ivor Bulmer-Thomas, Frank Newsam, Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha, P. F. Strawson, Rhodri Morgan, Geoff Gallop, Sanjaya Lall, Gwynfor Evans, Edmund Campion, Bulstrode Whitelocke, Prince Akishino, Michael Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham, Simon Corcoran, James Whitelocke, Bill Halter, Jonathan Culler, Angela Eagle, Cuthbert Mayne, A. N. Sherwin-White, Victoria Coren, Henry Hall, Evan Davis, John Nicholl, John Wain, Edward Hawkins, George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave, Korn Chatikavanij, Frank Kearton, Baron Kearton, Alistair Burt, Kenelm Hubert Digby, Jack Davis, Rushanara Ali, William Trumbull, Simon Jenkins, Stephen Richards, Benjamin Rudyerd, David Tredinnick, William Holmes, Kenneth E. Kirk, Kenneth John Woollcombe, William Mitchell Ramsay, James Holden, John Grogan, Rex Richards, Gilbert Highet, Bill Callaghan, Henry Duff Traill, Ralph Hartley, John Smith, Raymond Postgate, George Lee, 3rd Earl of Lichfield, Edmund Crispin, John Maria Gatti, Frederick Dainton, Baron Dainton, J. P. Carswell, Edward Tylecote, Alexander Leeper, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Douglas Johnston, Lord Johnston, Peter Beazley, John Saward, Montague Shearman, Winston Churchill, Alan Ross, William Evans, Hugh Possingham, James Dawkins, David Cannadine, Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Mike Fitzpatrick, Henry Longueville Mansel, Henry Willobie, William Thomas Charley, Richard Holme, Baron Holme of Cheltenham, Jonathan Shipley, Geoffrey Lewis, Francis Windebank, Kai Brodersen, Khoo Boon Hui, Peter Phillips, Peter Mews, Paul E. Kerry, Charles Brasch, John Gilbert, Baron Gilbert, Alfred W. Pollard, ... ... Read more

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Title: B.C. Bloomfield. Philip Larkin: a Bibliography 1933-1994.(Book Review)
Author: Gillian Fenwick
Publication: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2003
Publisher: Bibliographical Society of Canada
Volume: 41Issue: 2Page: 102(4)

Article Type: Book Review

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Philip Larkin, Alec Jeffreys, Anthony Giddens, Brian J. Ford, Charles Thomas, Liam Donaldson, Norbert Elias, Jeffrey A. Hoffman, Harold Beeley, John Mcmanners, Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, David Munrow, William George Hoskins, Keith Hill, Colin Eaborn, Richard Hoggart, Michał Heller, Hans Kornberg, George Sutherland Fraser, Khurshid Ahmad, Ronald L. Meek, Mark Purnell, Michael Scholar, Brian Simon, Myra Shackley, Charles Rees, Robert Burgess, Clive Ruggles, Norman Housley, Walter Eric Spear, Christopher Dyer, John Brookfield, Liu Zhiming, Michael Festing, Neil Christie, Martin Harris, John Goldthorpe, Richard Aldridge, Nicholas J. Cull, Richard Finn, Glenn White, Roger Cotterrell, Gerald Bernbaum, Keith Hopkins, Ken Pounds, Gianni de Fraja, Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Harold James Dyos, J. B. Schneewind, Trevor D. Ford, Albrecht Fröhlich, Eric Dunning, Jackie Beere, Trevor Sheldon, Stephen Reno, Simon James, Gabriel Dover, Reuben Goodstein, Rosemary Sage, Frances Ashcroft, Martin Forward, Richard Bonney, Graeme Barker, Edward Parkes, David Mattingly, Leonard Huxley, Laurence Howard, Craig Jamieson, Malcolm Shaw, Gilly Salmon, Clive A. Stace, Alan Bryman, John Coffey, Cosmo Graham, Nial Tanvir, Sami Zubaida, Chris Willmott. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Philip Larkin -Philip Larkin was born on 9 August 1922 in Coventry, the only son and younger child of Sydney Larkin (18841948), who came from Lichfield, and his wife, Eva Emily Day (18861977) of Epping. The family lived in Radford, Coventry until Larkin was five years old, and then moved to a large three-storey middle-class house, complete with servants quarters in Manor Road, near to Coventry railway station and King Henry VIII School. Having survived the bombings of the Second World War th...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=43923 ... Read more

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Philip (Arthur) Larkin (1922-85) is one of the foremost poets who flourished in the post-World War II era of English literature. He is widely taught in universities and colleges as earnestly in India as abroad.

A Companion to Philip Larkin is designed to help the beginners learn about Larkin without assistance. Others may find in it plenty of material for refurbishing their knowledge of the poet.

The book consists of two volumes.

Volume I contains seven chapters: chapter one presents a brief biography of Larkin, chapter two deals with some distinctive aspects of his personality, chapter three shows an inventory of his works, and chapter four examines Larkin as a novelist. Besides, there is one long chapter each for his three collections of poems: The Less Deceived, The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows. Twelve poems from each of the three collections have been lucidly explained, discussed and evaluated.

Volume II comprises the following eleven chapters (each chapter-heading clearly indicates what it is about): (i) Is Larkin a Modern Poet?, (ii) Is Larkin a Movement Poet?, (iii) Larkins Poetic Theory and Stylistic Features, (iv) Major Themes of Larkin, (v) Pessimism and Death in Larkin, (vi) Ventriloquism in Larkins Poems, (vii) Did Larkin Develop?, (viii) Larkins Gentility, (ix) Larkins Englishness, (x) A Quick Look at Some Other Aspects of Larkin as a Poet (this chapter includes detailed discussions on four special poems of Larkin: Aubade, Bridge for the Living, Dublinesque and MCMXIV), and (xi) Appreciations and Criticisms of Larkin.

The book will be highly useful to the students, teachers and researchers of English literature, particularly to those having a keen interest in Philip Larkin. ... Read more