Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin was a British writer who, throughout his life, was educated and worked as a librarian. Prior to striking a chord with the British public in 1955 with his poetry collection The Less Deceived, Larkin had already published the poetry collection The North Ship (1945) and the two novels Jill (1946) and A Girl in Winter (1947). Larkin's delicate lyrical sensibility and his mastery of verbal understatement and bitterly ironic tone, influenced by Thomas Hardy, established him as a poetic spokesperson for the ordinary Brit in a reality marked by disillusionment and a need for sobriety.

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