In his valuable collection of essays and reviews, Required Writing, Philip Larkin wondered–in a piece about Sir John Betjeman–“Can it be that, as Eliot dominated the first half of the twentieth ...

Many lovers of Philip Larkin’s poetry were surprised to hear yesterday, via the BBC, that a new poem and a trove of unpublished work by the poet had been discovered. But no one was more surprised than ...

Philip Larkin (1922-1985) once remarked of another poet -- Stevie Smith, author of the celebrated line "Not waving but drowning" -- that she possessed "the authority of sadness." True enough, yet ...

In a talk given to university librarians, Philip Larkin, the poet and onetime librarian at the University of Hull, said about the preservation of literary manuscripts, “Unpublished work, unfinished ...