Philip Larkin : A Great Poet
Philip Larkin : A Great Poet Philip Larkin is one of the greatest writers of modern period. He wrote novels, jazz criticism and essays as well but his reputation as a as a writer rests mainly on his poetry. He was born in Coventry in 1922. He went to Oxford in the early 1940s. After Oxford, Philip Larkin became a librarian. Along with his career as a librarian he composed poetry. The graph of his popularity as a poet ascended consistently. A number of literary honours were conferred on him. He was offered the poet laureateship on the death of John Benjamin. In the middle years of his life his health started failing and he died in 1985. Philip Larkin is popular for his The North Ship (1945), The Less Deceived (1955), New Lines (1956), The Whitsun Weddings (1964) and High Windows (1974). His early verse showed the influence of Yeats and Dylan Thomas to an extraordinary degree. With his second volume named The Less Deceived, Larkin's distinctive talent appeared. As a poet Lar...