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Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982
The reappearance of Philip Larkin's Required Writing will be welcomed by the late poet's many readers and admirers. The book's first two parts, "Recollections" and "Interviews," provide autobiographical glimpses of the very private Larkin's childhood, his youth at Oxford, the genesis of his forty-year career as a librarian, and the influences that initi...more
Paperback, 328 pages
Published
October 1st 1999
by University of Michigan Press
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Phillip Larkin shares with Orwell the ability to engage you with clear and elegant prose.
This is writing that you not only enjoy for itself but also leaves you wanting to read the works of the authors he reviews. Go here for a (re)introduction to Stevie Smith, Barbara Pym and Emily Dickson and a wonderfully cool assessment of Rupert Brooke. I read and reread the essay on Sylvia Plath not thinking, "I wish I'd written that" but rather "I could have written that".....more
This is writing that you not only enjoy for itself but also leaves you wanting to read the works of the authors he reviews. Go here for a (re)introduction to Stevie Smith, Barbara Pym and Emily Dickson and a wonderfully cool assessment of Rupert Brooke. I read and reread the essay on Sylvia Plath not thinking, "I wish I'd written that" but rather "I could have written that".....more
Larkin was a university librarian for most of his life; he loved jazz and had a broad and deep knowledge of it; his first reaction when asked to edit "The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse" was that it would make him a lot of money. Short pieces collected from throughout his varied and simultaneous careers.
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Philip Arthur Larkin, CH, CBE, FRSL, was an English poet, novelist and jazz critic. He spent his working life as a university librarian and was offered the Poet Laureateship following the death of John Betjeman, but declined the post. Larkin is commonly regarded as one of the greatest English poets of the latter half of the twentieth century. He first came to prominence with the release of his thi...more
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