Authors: James Booth
51.
To Sutton, 1 April 1942. Not in
SL
.
52.
To Sutton, 2 January 1943.
SL
, p. 53.
53.
To Sutton, ‘Friday night’ (1939 or 1940). Not in
SL
.
54.
To his family, 7 March 1943.
55.
‘Not the Place’s Fault’,
FR
, pp. 10–11.
56.
One minor difference is that Sydney almost always spells ‘and’ in full, whereas Philip generally uses a plus sign.
57.
‘Not the Place’s Fault’,
FR
, p. 10.
58.
Burnett gives the full official version.
Complete Poems
, p. 510.
59.
Philip Larkin,
Incidents from Phippy’s Schooldays
, ed. Brenda Allen and James Acheson, with illustrations by Rodney Fitzgerald (Edmonton, Canada: Juvenilia Press, 2002).
60.
James Booth, ‘Larkin’s Schoolboy Writings’,
AL
13 (April 2002), pp. 21–8.
61.
‘Stanley en Musique’, ‘À un ami qui aime’, ‘Stanley et la Glace’.
62.
Jill
, p. 78.
63.
Booth, ‘Larkin’s Schoolboy Writings’, pp. 21–8.
64.
15 October 1940. James Booth, ‘“Dear Pop and Mop”: The Larkin Family Letters Arrive in Hull’,
AL
25 (April 2008), pp. 16–17, at p. 16.
65.
Ibid.
66.
Jill
, p. 12.
67.
26 October 1940. Booth, ‘“Dear Pop and Mop”: The Larkin Family Letters Arrive in Hull’, p. 16.
68.
17 November 1940. DLN/1/32.
69.
Jill
, p. 214.
70.
Letter beginning ‘Dear fambly’, 18 November 1940.
71.
BD1, p. 10.
72.
For the Lichfield context see David Gerard, ‘Family Matters’,
AL
12 (October 2001), p. 31.
73.
Motion, p. 41.
74.
BD1, p. 6.
75.
Kingsley Amis, ‘Oxford and After’, in Thwaite (ed.),
Larkin at Sixty
, p. 25.
76.
See Janice Rossen, ‘Larkin at Oxford: Chaucer, Langland and Bruce Montgomery’,
Journal of Modern Literature
21.2 (Winter 1997), pp. 295–311.
77.
‘Writing Poems’ (1964),
RW
, p. 84.
78.
Ibid.
79.
S. T. Coleridge,
Biographia Literaria
(London: J. M. Dent, 1956), p. 167.
80.
T. S. Eliot, ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’,
Selected Essays 1917–1932
(London: Faber & Faber, 1932), p. 15.
81.
‘A Conversation with Ian Hamilton’,
FR
, pp. 19–20.
82.
Interview with
Paris Review
,
RW
, p. 74.
2: Exemption (1941–3)
1.
Kingsley Amis,
Memoirs
(London: Hutchinson, 1991), p. 55.
2.
Though Kitty’s name was Catherine, he addresses the envelope in florid copperplate ‘Miss Katherine Larkin’, mentioning the ‘elaborate envelope’ in which her own previous letter had arrived.
3.
DLN/3/2.
4.
To Sutton, 16 June 1941. Not in
SL
.
5.
‘The Art of Jazz’ (1940), in
Larkin’s Jazz: Essays and Reviews 1940–84
, ed. Richard Palmer and John White (London and New York: Continuum, 2001), pp. 169–70.
6.
BD1, p. 5.
7.
To Sutton, 26 March 1941. Not in
SL
.
8.
Jill
, Introduction, pp. 14–15.
9.
Motion, p. 54.
10.
Ibid., p. 55.
11.
Richard Bradford,
The Odd Couple: The Curious Friendship between Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin
(London: Robson Press, 2012), p. 65.
12.
See ibid., pp. 71–2.
13.
Amis,
Memoirs
, p. 54.
14.
Motion, p. 59.
15.
Jill
,
p.
17.
16.
BD1, p. 9.
17.
Ibid., p. 8.
18.
‘Our Group’,
London Magazine
, December/January 1999/2000, pp. 26–7.
19.
‘Story 1’,
AL
10 (October 2000), pp. 4–20, at p. 19.
20.
‘Peter’,
AL
11 (April 2001), pp. 13–23, at p. 21. Two similar typed stories, as yet unpublished, are ‘The Eagles Are Gone’ and ‘Maurice’ (DPL/2/1/1/4 and DPL/2/1/1/6).
21.
Trevor Tolley and John White (eds),
Larkin’s Jazz
, Properbox 155 (four-CD set), disc 2 ‘Oxford’, track 6.
22.
‘Peter’, p. 14.
23.
Ibid., pp. 14–16.
24.
Ibid., p. 19
25.
Ibid., p. 22.
26.
To Sutton, 9 July 1941. Not in
SL
.
27.
BD1, p. 7.
28.
Ibid.
29.
Ibid.
30.
DLN/3/2/2.
31.
BD2, p. 5.
32.
Ibid.
33.
Ibid., p. 6.
34.
20 November 1941.
SL
, p. 28.
35.
BD2, p. 6.
36.
Ibid.
37.
To Sutton, 20 November 1941.
SL
, p. 28. Passage not in
SL
. See Don Lee, ‘Larkin attends a jam session at Abbey Road Studios (1941)’,
AL
27 (April 2009), p. 14.