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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.
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Jun 12, 2024 · By fools in old-style hats and coats, Who half the time were soppy-stern. And half at one another's throats. Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don't have any kids yourself.”. ― Philip Larkin, High Windows. Read more quotes from Philip Larkin.
Philip Larkin was born on 9 August 1922 at 2, Poultney Road, Radford, Coventry, [15] the only son and younger child of Sydney Larkin (1884–1948) and his wife Eva Emily (1886–1977), daughter of first-class excise officer William James Day.
Oct 31, 2018 · In the letters, Larkin used numerous pet names for his parents, including My Dear Pop, Pop & Mop, Dear fambly, My dear Mrs Larkin, Dearest Mop creature, Dear Creaturely Mop, My dear old...
‘This Be The Verse’ by Philip Larkin is a poem about how parents burden children with their faults and in their turn, they were also burdened with those faults. ‘This Be The Verse’ by Philip Larkin presents a full cycle.
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Jun 24, 2016 · ‘They f*ck you up, your mum and dad’: a memorable opening line for one of Philip Larkin’s best-known poems, ‘This Be The Verse’, not exactly a laudatory paean to parenthood. But what is Larkin’s poem actually saying, and why did he feel the need to write it?
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"This Be The Verse" is a lyric poem in three stanzas with an alternating rhyme scheme, by the English poet Philip Larkin (1922–1985). It was written around April 1971, was first published in the August 1971 issue of New Humanist , and appeared in the 1974 collection High Windows .
