The poems of British master Philip Larkin (1922–1985), one of the great mid-century poets in English, have had a frustrating life since the death of their author: this is the third book of Larkin ...

THE WHITSUN WEDDINGS by Philip Larkin. 46 pages. Random House. $4. Eliot lies in ashes. Auden flogs his muse infrequently in exile. England, for so many centuries “a nest of singing birds,” finds ...

In a talk given to university librarians, Philip Larkin, the poet and onetime librarian at the University of Hull, said about the preservation of literary manuscripts, “Unpublished work, unfinished ...