Rather than words comes the thought of high windows: The sun-comprehending glass, And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless. He worked in libraries his entire life. Only so long as I elected nothing; Simply to choose stopped all ways up but one, Contemporaries at Oxford, both Monica Jones and Philip Larkin (above, in 1984) graduated with firsts. but unlimited. Philip Larkin, April 1971. He Earned his BA from St. John’s College Oxford. The Complete Poems of PHILIP LARKIN edited with an introduction and commentary by ARCHIE BURNETT. AS SOON as he knew he was going to be Treasurer for the City of Coventry, Sydney Larkin told his wife Eva that the … It is characteristic of Carol Ann Duffy and Philip Larkin’s poetry that domestic life is presented as dull… You Me. Matchless potential! Philip Larkin was born in Coventry, England in 1922. Philip Larkin This complex poem is about a young woman, newly married, and her happiness on her wedding night and the day after. Philip Larkin. Choice of you shuts up that peacock-fan. The future was, in which temptingly spread. Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide. She is a farmer’s wife and their lives are such that the farm… Now the bigotry of his muse has been exposed in a book.In Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and Me, the academic John Philip Larkin To my Wife. Philip Larkin, The Marvell Press and Me, by Jean Hartley, is published by Faber Finds, price £14; to order it for £13.50 with free UK p&p go to observer.co.uk/bookshop Topics Philip Larkin After graduating, Larkin undertook professional studies to become a librarian. Philip Larkin. All that elaborative nature can. Philip Larkin was born in Coventry, England in 1922. He earned his BA from St. John’s College, Oxford, where he befriended novelist and poet Kingsley Amis and finished with First Class Honors in English. He worked in libraries his entire life, first in Shropshire and Leicester, and then at Queen’s College … Throughout the life of the poet Philip Larkin, multiple women had important roles which were significant influences on his poetry.Since Larkin's death in 1985, biographers have highlighted the importance of female relationships on Larkin: when Andrew Motion's biography was serialised in The Independent in 1993, the second installment of extracts was dedicated to the topic. In response to this view, explore connections between the ways in which Larkin and Duffy write about the ordinary in everyday life. Philip Larkin was vilified after his death for his racism, misogyny and philandering. You must analyse in detail at least two poems from each of your set texts. Larkin, meanwhile, became feted as a literary great.