ESSAYS
SERIOUS EARTH: PHILIP LARKIN’S AMERICAN TAPE
(THE WATERSHED RECORDING)
by James L. Orwin
From About Larkin 25, April 2008
TIRELESS PLAY: SPECULATIONS ON LARKIN’S ‘ABSENCES’
by Graham Chesters
From Challenges of Translation in French Literature: Studies and Poems in Honour of Peter Broome, ed. R. Bales (Peter Lang, Bern, 2005), pp. 47-59
ON FIRST LOOKING INTO LARKIN’S THE LESS DECEIVED
by AT Tolley
From About Larkin 18, Autumn 2004
JANE EXALL: “A BOSOMY ENGLISH ROSE”
by Suzuyo Kamitani
From About Larkin 16, October 2003
LARKIN, PYM AND ROMANTIC SYMPATHY
by John Bayley
From About Larkin 14, October 2002
PHILIP LARKIN AND ME, OR YOU: THE DEMOCRATIC APPEAL OF HIS POETRY
by Jean Hartley
Jean Hartley examines the broad appeal of Larkin’s poetry, and his wish for it to be so.
From About Larkin 13, April 2002
NOWHEREMANBY
by J. Douglas Porteous
From About Larkin 8, October 1999
PHILIP LARKIN: A PSYCHO-LITERARY SCETCH
by R.L. Brett
From About Larkin 7, April 1999
POETRY AND PREJUDICE: SEXUAL POLITICS IN ‘SUNNY PRESTATYN’
by Edward Reiss
From About Larkin 7, April 1999
LARKIN AT HULL
by John Kenyon
From About Larkin 6, Winter 1998/99
MY PARTICULAR TALENTS: PHILIP LARKIN’S 42-YEAR CAREER AS A LIBRARIAN
by Richard Goodman
From About Larkin 4, October 1997