BIBLIOGRAPHY

BIOGRAPHY AND CONCORDANCE

Bloomfield, B. C.: Philip Larkin: A Bibliography 1933–1994 (London: British Library and Oak Knoll Press, revised and enlarged edn, 2002)
Watt, R. J. C.: A Concordance to the Poetry of Philip Larkin (Hildesheim: Olms-Weidmann, 1995)

MEMOIRS AND RECOLLECTIONS OF LARKIN

Amis, Kingsley: Memoirs (London: Hutchinson, 1991)
‘Oxford and After’, in Anthony Thwaite (ed.), Larkin at Sixty (London:
- Faber & Faber, 1982) 23–30
Booth, James: ‘Glimpses’ (interview with Monica Jones), About Larkin 12 (October 2001), 21–6
Brennan, Maeve: ‘Philip Larkin: a biographical sketch’, in Brian Dyson (ed.), The Modern Academic Library: Essays in Memory of Philip Larkin (London: Library Association, 1988), 1–19
- The Philip Larkin I Knew (Manchester: Manchester University Press, Larkin Society Monograph 3, 2002)
Dawson (Arnott), Winifred: ‘The Day I Met Monica’, About Larkin 31 (April 2011), 5–7
Dyson, Brian (ed.): The Modern Academic Library: Essays in Memory of Philip Larkin (London: Library Association, 1998
Fowler, Margaret: ‘Larkin’s Library Recollected’, About Larkin 32 (October 2011), 11
Hamburger, Michael: Philip Larkin (London: Enitharmon Press, 2002
Hartley, George (ed.): Philip Larkin – A Tribute: 1922–1985 (London: Marvell Press, 1988)
Hartley, Jean: ‘Larkin, Love and Sex’, About Larkin 30 (October 2010), 6–8.
Philip Larkin, the Marvell Press and Me (1989; London: Sumach Press, 1993)
Hughes, Noel: ‘The Young Mr Larkin’, in Anthony Thwaite (ed.), Larkin at Sixty (London: Faber & Faber, 1982), 17–22
Iles, Norman: ‘Our Group’, London Magazine, December/January 1999/2000, 26–7
Moon, Brenda: ‘Working with Philip Larkin’, About Larkin
Phillips, Moira: ‘Larkin Recollected’, About Larkin 33 (April 2012), 11
Raban, Jonathan: Coasting (London, Collins Harvill, 1986)
‘Philip Larkin’, in Driving Home: An American Scrapbook (London: Picador, 2010)
Rowland, Yvonne: ‘Remembering Monica Jones in Leicester’, About Larkin 30 (October 2010), 18–19
Saville, John: Memoirs from the Left (London: Merlin Press, 2003
Sharpe, Norman, and A. K. B. Evans (eds): ‘Monica at Leicester’, About Larkin 12 (October 2001), 17–19
Siverns (Bowman) Ruth: ‘Philip Larkin at Wellington 1943–1946′, About Larkin 1 (April 1996), 4–5
Thwaite, Anthony (ed.): Larkin at Sixty (London: Faber & Faber, 1982)
Watt, R. J. C., ‘”Scragged by embryo-Leavises”: Larkin reading his poems’, Critical Survey 1.2 (1989), 172–5

BIOGRAPHIES

Booth, James: Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love (London: Bloomsbury, 2014)
Bradford, Richard: First Boredom, Then Fear: The Life of Philip Larkin (London: Peter Owen, 2005)
- The Odd Couple: The Curious Friendship between Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin (London: Robson Press, 2012)
Motion, Andrew: Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life (London: Faber & Faber, 1993)

BOOKS, ARTICLES AND OTHER SECONDARY MATERIAL ON LARKIN

Alvarez, A., ‘The New Poetry, or Beyond the Gentility Principle’, Introduction to The New Poetry (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1962), 17–28
Amis, Martin: ‘Philip Larkin, His Work and Life’, Introduction to Philip Larkin: Poems (London: Faber & Faber, 2011), ix–xxiii
Avis (Strang), Patricia, Playing the Harlot or Mostly Coffee (London: Virago, 1996)
Baron, Michael (ed.): Larkin with Poetry: English Association Conference Papers (Leicester: English Association, 1997)
Bennett, Alan: ‘Alas! Deceived’, in Stephen Regan (ed.), Philip Larkin: Contemporary Critical Essays (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997), 226–49
Blackburn, Simon: ‘English Tombs and Larkin’, About Larkin 35 (April 2013), 7–11
Booth, James: ‘The Card-Players’, in Michael Hanke (ed.), Fourteen English Sonnets: Critical Essays, Studien zur anglistischen Literatur- und Sprachwissenschaft (28) (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2007), 169–77.
- ‘Competing Pulses: Secular and Sacred in Hughes, Larkin and Plath’, Critical Survey 12.3 (2000), 4–27
- ‘Larkin as Animal Poet’, About Larkin 22 (October 2006), 5–9
- (ed.): New Larkins for Old (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000)
- Philip Larkin: The Poet’s Plight (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
- Philip Larkin: Writer (Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992)
- ‘”Snooker” at the Seaside: The Birthday Walk in Scarborough’, About Larkin 16 (October 2003), 29–31
- ‘Sydney Larkin’s Little Hitler’, About Larkin 29 (April 2010), 27
- ‘The Turf-cutter and the Nine-to-Five Man: Heaney, Larkin, and “the Spiritual Intellect’s Great Work”‘, Twentieth-Century Literature 43.4 (Winter 1997), 369–93
Brennan, Maeve: ‘James Ballard Sutton 1921–1997′, About Larkin 5 (April 1988), 24–7
Bristow, Joseph: ‘The Obscenity of Philip Larkin’, Critical Inquiry 21 (Autumn 1994), 176–7
Burnett, Archie: ‘Biography and Poetry: Philip Larkin’, About Larkin 36 (October 2013), 7–18
Carey, John: ‘The Two Philip Larkins’, in James Booth (ed.), New Larkins for Old (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000), 51–65
Castle, Terry: ‘The Lesbianism of Philip Larkin’, in Zachary Leader (ed.), The Movement Reconsidered: Essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, Davie, and their Contemporarie (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 79–105
Chesters, Graham: ‘Larkin and Baudelaire’s Damned Women’, in James Dolamore (ed.), Making Connections: Essays in French Culture and Society in Honour of Philip Thody (Bern: Peter Lang, 1999), 81–92.
- ‘Tireless Play: Speculations on Larkin’s “Absences”‘, Richard Bales (ed.), Challenges of Translation in French Literature: Studies and Poems in Honour of Peter Broome (Bern: Peter Lang, 2005), 47–60
Conquest, Robert: Introduction to New Lines: An Anthology, ed. Robert Conquest (London: Macmillan, 1962), v–xviii.
- ‘New Lines, Movements, and Modernisms’, in Zachary Leader (ed.), The Movement Reconsidered: Essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, Davie, and their Contemporaries (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 307–16
D’Arch Smith, Timothy: R. A. Caton and the Fortune Press: A Memoir and a Hand-List (revised edn, North Pomfret, Vermont: Asphodel Editions, 2004)
Dawson (Arnott), Winifred: ‘Photograph Albums Revisited’, About Larkin 13 (April 2002), 4
Dyson, Brian (ed.), The Modern Academic Library: Essays in Memory of Philip Larkin (London: Library Association, 1988)
Everett, Barbara: ‘After Symbolism’, Essays in Criticism, 1980; reprinted in Poets in their Time (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986), 230–44
Foster, Paul, Trevor Brighton and Patrick Garland, An Arundel Tomb, Otter Memorial Paper 1 (Chichester: Chichester Institute, 1987)
Gilpin, George: ‘Patricia Avis and Philip Larkin’, in James Booth (ed.), New Larkins for Old (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000), 66–78
Gresham, Ross: ‘Larkin on the Lucky Jim Manuscript’, About Larkin 26 (October 2008), 11–13
Holt, Hazel: A Lot to Ask: A Life of Barbara Pym (London: Macmillan, 1990)
Hughes, Ted: Letters of Ted Hughes, ed. Christopher Reid (London: Faber & Faber, 2007)
Ingelbien, Raphaël: ‘The Uses of Symbolism: Larkin and Eliot’, in James Booth (ed.), New Larkins for Old (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000), 130–43
Kelly, Terry: ‘The Black Album’, review of Martin Amis’s Philip Larkin: Poems, About Larkin 32 (October 2011), 33–4
Kriewald, Gary: ‘Wasteful, weak, propitiatory poems: Larkin apologizes to the animals’, About Larkin 28 (October 2009), 29–33
Leader, Zachary (ed.): The Letters of Kingsley Amis (London: HarperCollins, 2000).
- (ed.): The Movement Reconsidered: Essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, Davie, and their Contemporaries (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)
Leggett, B. J.: Larkin’s Blues: Jazz, Popular Music and Poetry (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999)
Lodge, David: ‘Philip Larkin: The Metonymic Muse’, in Stephen Regan (ed.), Philip Larkin: Contemporary Critical Essays (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997), 71–82
Lomax, Marion: ‘Larkin with Women’, in Michael Baron (ed.), Larkin with Poetry: English Association Conference Papers (Leicester: English Association, 1997), 31–46>
Longley, Edna: ‘Poète Maudit Manqué’, in George Hartley (ed.), Philip Larkin – A Tribute: 1922–1985 (London: Marvell Press, 1988), 220–31
Lowe, N. F.: ‘Bruce Montgomery and Philip Larkin: Evidence of a ruptured relationship’, About Larkin 6 (October 1998), 11–12
Marshall, Oliver: ‘A Letter from Loughborough’, About Larkin 15 (April 2003), 18–19
Morrison, Blake: The Movement: English Poetry and Fiction of the 1950s (London: Methuen, 1980)
- ‘”Still Going On, All of It”: The Movement in the 1950s and the Movement Today’, in Zachary Leader (ed.), The Movement Reconsidered: Essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, Davie, and their Contemporaries (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 16–33
Orwin, James L.: ‘Serious Earth: Philip Larkin’s American Tapes’, About Larkin 25 (April 2008), 20–4
- Jean Hartley’s Philip Larkin, the Marvell Press and Me: an Index (Hull: Dancing Sisters, 2015)
Osborne, John: ‘Larkin and the Visual Arts’, About Larkin 36 (October 2013), 19–21
- Larkin, Ideology and Critical Violence: A Case of Wrongful Conviction (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
- Radical Larkin: Seven Types of Technical Mastery (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
Palmer, Richard: Such Deliberate Disguises: The Art of Philip Larkin (London and New York: Continuum, 2008)
Parkinson, R. N.: ‘To keep our metaphysics warm: A study of “Church Going” by Philip Larkin’, Critical Survey 5 (Winter 1971), 224–33
Paulin, Tom: ‘She Did Not Change: Philip Larkin’, Minotaur: Poetry and the Nation State(London: Faber & Faber, 1992), 233–51
Pelizzon, V. Penelope: ‘Native Carnival: Philip Larkin’s Puppet-Theatre of Ritual’, in James Booth (ed.), New Larkins for Old (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000), 213–23
Regan, Stephen (ed.): Philip Larkin: Contemporary Critical Essays (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997)
Roberts, Neil: ‘Hughes, the Laureateship and National Identity’, Q/W/E/R/T/Y 9 (October 1999), 203–9
- Rossen, Janice: ‘Larkin at Oxford: Chaucer, Langland and Bruce Montgomery’, Journal of Modern Literature 21.2 (Winter 1997), 295–311.
- ‘Philip Larkin and Lucky Jim’, Journal of Modern Literature 22.1 (Fall 1998), 147–64
- Philip Larkin: His Life’s Work (Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989)
Rossen, Janice: Philip Larkin: His Life’s Work. Prentice-Hall, 1989. Print.
- ‘Larkin at Oxford: Chaucer, Langland and Bruce Montgomery’, Journal of Modern Literature 21.2 (Winter 1997), 295–311.
- ‘Philip Larkin and Lucky Jim’, Journal of Modern Literature 22.1 (Fall 1998), 147–64
- Philip Larkin: His Life’s Work (Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989)
Rowe, M.W.: ‘The Transcendental Larkin’, English 38. 161 (Summer 1989), 143–152.
- ‘Unreal Girls: Lesbian Fantasy in Early Larkin’, in James Booth (ed) New Larkins for Old (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000), 79-96.
- ‘On Being Brunette: Larkin’s Schoolgirl Fictions’, Critical Quarterly 2.4 (Winter 2001), 42-58.
- ‘A Cake in the Rain’, review of David Whittle, Bruce Montgomery/Edmund Crispin: A Life in Music and Books, About Larkin 26 (October 2008), 28-31.
- Philip Larkin: Art and Self: Five Studies (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
- ‘Unreal Cities: Gautier’s Influence on “For Sidney Bechet”‘, About Larkin 38 (October 2014), 17-19.
Rumens, Carol: ‘”I don’t understand cream cakes, but I eat them”: Distance and difference in A Girl in Winter‘, About Larkin 29 (April 2010), 7–12
Spurr, Barry. ‘Alienation and Affirmation in the Poetry of Philip Larkin.’ Sydney Studies in English. 14.1 (1988): 52-71. Print.
Sutherland, John. Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and Me: Her Life and Long Loves, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021
Swarbrick, Andrew. Out of Reach: The Poetry of Philip Larkin. Palgrave, 1995. Print.
Thwaite, Anthony: ‘How It Seemed Then: An Autobiographical, Anecdotal Essay’, in Zachary Leader (ed.), The Movement Reconsidered: Essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, Davie, and their Contemporaries (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 247–54
Timms, D. Philip Larkin. Barnes & Noble, 1973. Print.
Tolley, Trevor: Larkin at Work: A Study of Larkin’s Mode of Composition as seen in his Workbooks (Hull: Hull University Press, 1997)
- ‘Lost Pages’, About Larkin 11 (April 2001), 24–7
- My Proper Ground: A Study of the Work of Philip Larkin and its Development (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1991)
- and John White (eds): Larkin’s Jazz, Properbox 155 (four-CD set), in association with the Philip Larkin Society. www.propermusic.com
Tomlinson, Charles: ‘The Middlebrow Muse’, Essays in Criticism 7.2 (April 1957), 208–17
Vize, Colin: ‘Larkin’s Refraction’, About Larkin 36 (April 2013), 23
Waterman, Rory. Belonging and Estrangement in the Poetry of Philip Larkin, R.S. Thomas and Charles Causley. Routledge, 2014. Print.
Watson, J. R.: ‘The Other Larkin’, Critical Quarterly 17.4 (Winter 1975), 347–60
Wiemann, Birte: ‘Larkin’s Englishness: A German Perspective’, About Larkin 29 (April 2010), 25–6
Woolf, Sheila: ‘A Hearty Laugh? Philip Larkin at King Henry VIII School, Coventry’, About Larkin 28 (October 2009), 15–16

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