Authors: James Booth
Archival Sources in the Hull University Collection, The History Centre, Hull
| U DLN | Larkin family papers. |
| U DLN/6 | Letters to Eva Larkin. These are cited in the text by date only. |
| U DP, DPL | Various papers related to Larkin deposited in the University of Hull Collection. |
| U DP/174/2 | Letters to James Sutton. These are cited in the text by date only. |
| U DPL/1/2–8 | Larkin’s poetic workbooks 2–8 (1950–81). |
| U DX/329 | Pictures, ornaments, etc. from 105 Newland Park in 2001–2, belonging to the Philip Larkin Society, inventoried by James Booth in 2003. Key items are deposited in the History Centre, Hull; others are on loan to the East Yorkshire Museums Service. |
The U prefix is omitted in the notes
.
Other Archival Sources
British Library Add. MS. 52619: Larkin’s poetic workbook 1 (1944–50).
Unpublished letters not included in
Selected Letters
,
Letters to Monica
or
The Letters of Kingsley Amis
are cited by recipient and date only. The correspondences are held in the following institutions:
Kingsley Amis: The Huntington Library, California, AMS 353–428.
Monica Jones: The Bodleian Library, Oxford, Ms. Eng. c.7403–c.7445.
Introduction
1.
Jonathan Raban, ‘Philip Larkin’, in
Driving Home:
An American Scrapbook
(London: Picador, 2010), p. 88.
2.
http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/literature/20120422_Collected_Philip_Larkin__A_sobering_triumph_of_exquisitely_finished_poems.html?viewAll=y&c=y#ixzz1snyCEM65.
3.
‘Poets’ poll crowns Larkin king of verse’,
Guardian
, 15 October 2003, p. 8.
4.
To Judy Egerton, 6 June 1982.
SL
,
p.
674.
5.
Complete Poems
, p. xxvi.
6.
20 September 1945.
SL
, p. 110.
7.
Oliver Marshall, ‘Stories from the Doldrums’,
Irish Times
, 18 May 2002, p. 8.
8.
Complete Poems
, p. xiii.
9.
Dennis O’Driscoll, ‘Scraping the bottom of the waste paper basket’,
Irish Times
, 11 February 2012.
10.
Paul Muldoon,
New York Times Sunday Book Review
, 19 April 2012.
11.
To Patsy Strang, 12 July 1953.
SL
, p. 202.
12.
W. N. Herbert and Matthew Hollis (eds),
Strong Words: Modern Poets on Modern Poetry
(Tarset: Bloodaxe Books, 2000), p. 150.
13.
‘Statement’,
RW
, p. 79.
14.
‘The Pleasure Principle’,
RW
, p. 89.
15.
‘A Conversation with Ian Hamilton’,
FR
, p. 24.
16.
See R. J. C. Watt,
A Concordance to the Poetry of Philip Larkin
(Hildesheim: Olms-Weidmann, 1995).
17.
Martin Amis, Introduction to
Philip Larkin: Poems
(London: Faber & Faber, 2011), p. x.
18.
Motion, p. 313.
19.
Interview with Mark Lawson,
Independent
, Sunday 7 March 1993.
20.
Tom Paulin, letter to the
Times Literary Supplement
, 6 November 1992, p. 15.
21.
David Mason, ‘What Will Survive of Us’,
Wall St Journal
, 14 April 2012.
22.
Morten Hoi Jenssen, ‘Larkin’s Way’,
Paris Review
, 3 April 2012.
23.
William Logan, review of
The Complete Poems
,
Poetry
(Chicago), September 2012. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/article/244462.
24.
Martin Amis, review of
Letters to Monica
,
Guardian
, 23 October 2010.
25.
Amis, Introduction to
Philip Larkin: Poems
, pp. xvii, xxii.
26.
Hartley, p. 209.
27.
Ibid.
28.
Ibid., p. 215.
29.
Absalom and Achitophel
, ll. 545–6.
30.
Professor Raymond Brett, personal communication, 1974.
31.
Betty Mackereth, interview with the author, 9 February 2013.
32.
Brian Dyson (ed.),
The Modern Academic Library: Essays in Memory of Philip Larkin
(London: Library Association, 1988).
33.
See James Booth, ‘The Turf-cutter and the Nine-to-Five Man: Heaney, Larkin, and “the Spiritual Intellect’s Great Work”’,
Twentieth-Century Literature
43.4 (Winter 1997), pp. 369–93.
34.
Amis, Introduction to
Philip Larkin: Poems
, p. xvii.
35.
Interview with the
Observer
,
RW
, 51; ‘A Conversation with Ian Hamilton’,
FR
, p. 23.
36.
Raban, ‘Philip Larkin’, p. 89.
37.
Interview with the
Observer
,
RW
, pp. 47, 53–4, 48, 47.
38.
Tom Paulin, ‘She Did Not Change: Philip Larkin’,
Minotaur: Poetry and the Nation State
(London: Faber & Faber, 1992), p. 236.
39.
Anthony Thwaite (ed.),
Larkin at Sixty
(London: Faber & Faber, 1982), illustration opposite p. 60.
40.
29 November 1952.
LM
, p. 94.
41.
Interview with the
Observer
,
RW
, p. 52.
42.
To Julian Barnes, 27 September 1985.
SL
, p. 751.
43.
To Monica Jones, 16 November 1968. Not in
LM
.
44.
Brennan, p. 24.
45.
James Booth (ed.), ‘Larkin’s Second Dream Diary’,
AL
32 (October 2011), pp. 6–7.
46.
Motion, p. 62.
47.
Paul Bailey,
Independent
, 12 August 2005.
48.
DX/329, inventory 600 pp. i–ix.
49.
Nuala O’Faiolain,
Are You Somebody?
(New York: Henry Holt, 1996),
p.
66.