AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Close
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
<a href="http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-6606887_ITM" title="Facts and information about Philip Larkin's "element".(Critical Essay)">Philip Larkin's "element".(Critical Essay)</a>
Close
Set up an RSS feed that alerts you when new articles from New Criterion are available.
Frequently asked questions about RSS feeds
Philip Larkin's "element".(Critical Essay)
Philip Larkin died in 1985, at the age of sixty-three. Even before his death he had come to be regarded in Britain as a kind of national institution, rather than as just another distinguished writer. His poems were the most widely quoted and anthologized of any Englishman whose career fell within the second half of the twentieth century; he had (grumblingly) received innumerable awards, prizes, medals, and honorary doctorates; he had been made the subject of various television and radio programs and collections of laudatory essays, twice been decorated by the Queen, elected to a Visiting Fellowship of All Souls' College and an Honorary Fellowship of St. John's College, ...
Related articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, and more
For more facts and information, see all results
- Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life. (poem)
- Magazine article from: The Southern Review Bell, Vereen March 22, 1994 700+ words
...easily" Until his death in 1985 Philip Larkin was by common agreement England...Ted Hughes would be buried in Westminster Abbey). He kept interesting people...The poems were as good as Philip Larkin could be, as he knew, and...
- An odd couple.(First Boredom, Then Fear: A Life Of Philip Larkin )(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Spectator Kavanagh, P.J.J. June 25, 2005 700+ words
...BOREDOM, THEN FEAR: A LIFE OF PHILIP LARKIN by Richard Bradford Peter Owen...0720611474 When the poems of Philip Larkin came to the fore in the late...When, three decades later, Westminster Abbey was found crammed to the walls...
- Selected Letters of Philip Larkin.
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review Rowse, A.L. March 1, 1993 700+ words
...else of interest to anyone of perception. On the threshold is Beverley, with a Minster the North Country equivalent of Westminster Abbey, the Percy tomb in it has the finest of medieval sculpture. To persons of any cultural sensibility, even common sense...
- Philip Larkin's 'Love Again' and Auden's 'A.E. Housman.' (W.H. Auden)
- Magazine article from: Notes and Queries Nelson, Graham June 1, 1995 700+ words
Philip Larkin completed his last and bleakest poem of substance...The letters referred to in this note are all included in Philip Larkin, Selected Letters' of Philip Larkin 1940-1985, ed. Anthony Thwaite (London, 1992...
- Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life.
- Magazine article from: The American Spectator Richman, Robert September 1, 1993 700+ words
Andrew Motion met Philip Larkin, the greatest of postwar English poets...even politically incorrect readers of Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life and The Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940-1985(1) may be surprised by...
- Bradford, Richard. First Boredom, Then Fear: The Life of Philip Larkin.(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Library Journal Walsh, Felicity D. February 1, 2006 700+ words
...First Boredom, Then Fear: The Life of Philip Larkin. Peter Owen, dist. by Dufour. Feb...correct academic world came to view poet Philip Larkin (1922-85) as tainted by misogynist...Collected Poems and Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, both edited by Anthony Thwaite...
- The Obedientiaries of Westminster Abbey and their Financial Records c.1275 to...
- Magazine article from: Medium Aevum March 22, 2005 700+ words
The Obedientiaries of Westminster Abbey and their Financial Records...1540, ed. Barbara Harvey, Westminster Abbey Record Series, Volume III...110.00. The third in the Westminster Abbey Record Series, this volume...
- Westminster Abbey and the Plantagenets. Kingship and the Representation of...
- Magazine article from: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History Gameson, Richard October 1, 1996 700+ words
...books on the art and architecture of Westminster Abbey; not, however, since the work...one authorial spelling mistake. Westminster Abbey and the Plantagenets consists of...relationship with the court, not to mention Westminster Abbey, is uncertain. Binski is candid...
- The cradle of laudianism? Westminster Abbey, 1558-1630.
- Magazine article from: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History Merritt, J.F. October 1, 2001 700+ words
Westminster Abbey has been surprisingly neglected...in their religions character. Westminster Abbey occupies an extraordinary void...frustrated by, the presence of Westminster Abbey. One quite recent discovery...
- Philip Larkin: A Bibliography, 1933-1994.(Thomas Hardy: A Bibliographical...
- Magazine article from: Libraries & Culture Matthews, J.G. September 22, 2005 700+ words
Philip Larkin: A Bibliography, 1933-1994. By...cooperated with Bloomfield to produce Philip Larkin: A Bibliography, 1933-1976. Purdy...foreword to the expanded edition, Philip Larkin: A Bibliography, 1933-1994, Bloomfield...
Source: HighBeam Research, Philip Larkin's "element".(Critical Essay)