Philip (Arthur) Larkin Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 24 pages of information about the life of Philip (Arthur) Larkin.
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Philip (Arthur) Larkin Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 24 pages of information about the life of Philip (Arthur) Larkin.
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Dictionary of Literary Biography on Philip (Arthur) Larkin

[This entry was updated by Bruce K. Martin (Drake University) from his entry in the Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, volume 8, pp. 200-211.]

In a time when popular reception of poetry was perhaps more tenuous than in any period since the Wordsworthian revolution, Philip Larkin managed to capture a loyal, wide, and growing audience of readers. He has been acclaimed the "unofficial poet laureate" of England and the "laureate of the common man," as a representative spokesman for the British sensibility since World War II. He emerged as the center, if not the starting point, of most critical debate over postwar British verse. He is the best known and most acclaimed—critically and popularly—of the figures who made up the so-called Movement in the early 1950s and as an avowed enemy of the literary modernism scorned by The Movement. His scant four collections of poems, written...

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