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<p>richard Bradford's New Biography Reveals That Philip Larkin Treated His Prejudices And Peculiarities With Detached Circumspection. Sometimes He Shared Them, Self-mockingly, Self-destructively, With His Closest Friends; He Divided Up His Life So That Some People Knew Him Well But None Completely. It Was Only In The Poems That The Parts Began To Resemble The Whole. The Trajectory Of His Poetic Writing Was Influenced Principally By His Friendship With Kingsley Amis. Without Larkin Amis's Imensely Successful First Novel, Lucky Jim, Would Not Have Been Written. Its Success Caused Larkin Finally To Abandon His Own Ambitions As A Novelist, To Concentrate Exclusively On His Poetry, And His Poetry Would Thereafter Become His Autobiography. Larkin's Poetry Is In Its Own Right Magnificent, And Readers Of Bradford's Biography Will Be Able To Extend Their Appreciation Of His Art To An Acquaintance With The Artist At Work.</p> <h3>publishers Weekly</h3> <p>in This Thoroughly Researched, Sometimes Slow-moving Biography, British Scholar Bradford Attempts To Redress The Unfavorable Image Of One Of Britain's Most Popular 20th-century Poets (1922-1985), Which Resulted From The Publication Of Larki

Author

Richard Bradford

Publisher

London: Peter Owen ; Chester Springs, PA: Distributed in the USA by Dufour Editions

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780720613254

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Biography