Whitsun Weddings

Philip Larkin

Aldine de Gruyter

Philip Larkin's second novel was first published in 1947. This story of Katherine Lind and Robin Fennel, of winter and summer, of war and peace, of exile and holidays, is memorable for its compassionate precision and for the uncommon and unmistakable distinction of its writing. 'A Girl in Winter is a beautifully constructed, funny and profoundly sad book.' Andrew Motion 'One of the finest and most sustained prose poems in the language.' John Bayley

A GIRL IN WINTER

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Faber&Faber

All What Jazz: A Record Diary, 1961-1971

All What Jazz: A Record Diary

Arts & Photography

Music

Collected Poems

One of the best-known, best-loved poets of the English-speaking world, Larkin had a relatively small number of poems published during his lifetime. This Collected Poems, which J. D. McClatchy called "a fascinating and indispensable text" in The New York Times Book Review, brings together not only all of Larkin's published verseâ€”The North Ship (1945), the pamphlet of XX Poems (1953), The Less Deceived (1955), The Whitsun Weddings (1964), and High Windows (1974)â€”but also a vast selection of his uncollected poetry. A brief Introduction by Anthony Thwaite illuminates both the life and verse of this highly perceptive and deeply acerbic poet, a dour yet witty soul whose brilliant writings so often suggest an ongoing conflict between the traditional and the modern.

Collected poems

Poetry

Marvell Press and Faber and Fa

History

Europe

Faber Paperbacks

The book opens with works written under the pseudonym 'Brunette Coleman', including the two novellas, Trouble at Willow Gables and Michaelmas Term at St Bride's, and the poem sequence Sugar and Spice. The remainder of the volume is devoted to the unfinished drafts of two novels, No For An Answer and A New World Symphony, on which Larkin worked after the completion of A Girl in Winter. It ends with two short debats of 1950 and 1951, which pungently dramatise his sense of failure as a novelist and his rejection of marriage.

"Trouble at Willow Gables" and Other Fiction 1943-1953

High Windows

Faber and Faber

Faber Poetry Essentials Box Set

Sylvia Plath

Simon Armitage

SEAMUS HEANEY

Wendy Cope

Siegfried, Sassoon

T.S.Eliot

TED HUGHES

VARIOUS

Monica Jones was Philip Larkin's lover and confidant for 40 years until his death in 1985. On her death in 2001, almost 2000 letters, postcards and telegrams came to light. Relaxed, intimate, affectionate and often very funny, they chronicle, day by day, almost every aspect of Larkin's life: his poetry and the events that shaped it, his work as a librarian, his friendships, and his insights on literature, from Hardy and DH Lawrence to WH Auden and Kingsley Amis.

Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Philip Larkin - Reading His Poetry - Cd

The Sunday Sessions

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