Anthony Thwaite, who has died aged 90, was a poet and editor who was deeply engaged with English literary life throughout his long and prolific career. Although perhaps now best known for his work on ...

Stewart Mottram receives funding from Arts and Humanities Research Council. The research for this article was undertaken with colleagues from the University of Hull's Larkin Centre for Poetry and ...

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 ...

Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless. Whatever the reason, I was a fan of Larkin’s work from a young age, and continue to be, to this day. Since I first memorized “The Trees,” not a spring has ...

In the fall of 1958, the second book by a young British poet named Philip Larkin made it across the ocean and into the consciousness of American poetry. By signing up, you confirm that you are over ...

The centenary Tuesday of the birth of the late Philip Larkin invites some reflections on his gloom. “Death is no different whined at than withstood,” the poet wrote in “Aubade,” published in 1977 in ...

The author of the immortal opening couplet, "They fuck you up, your mum and dad/They may not mean to, but they do," the poet Philip Larkin (1922-85) was in 2008 voted "the greatest British writer" of ...

Betty Mackereth: she compared herself to Catherine Parr, bringing serenity and comfort to the poet’s turbulent emotional life - Society of Authors/University of Hull U DLV-3-242-6 copyright SoA Betty ...

The research was co-authored with Aberystwyth MA student Jennifer Squire, and first presented at the Keats Foundation’s Sixth Bicentenniel John Keats Conference at Keats House, Hampstead, in May 2019.