Authors: James Booth
6.
Ibid., p. 33.
7.
To Sutton, 22 March 1944.
8.
Maeve Brennan, ‘Philip Larkin: a biographical sketch’, in Brian Dyson (ed.),
The Modern Academic Library: Essays in Memory of Philip Larkin
(London: Library Association, 1988), pp. 1–19, at pp. 5–6.
9.
‘Single-handed and Untrained’,
RW
, p. 34.
10.
Siverns, ‘Philip Larkin at Wellington’, p. 4.
11.
Ibid.
12.
Motion, p. 120.
13.
Gerard, ‘Wellington Walkabout’, p. 29.
14.
Motion, p. 122.
15.
Gerard, ‘Wellington Walkabout’, p. 29.
16.
To Sutton, 26 February 1944.
SL
, p. 87.
17.
For Caton (1897–1971) see Timothy D’Arch Smith,
R. A. Caton and the Fortune Press: A Memoir and a Hand-List
(revised edn, North Pomfret, Vermont: Asphodel Editions, 2004).
18.
The North Ship
(London: Fortune Press, 1945; first Faber & Faber edn, 1966), Introduction, p. 9. The reprint in
RW
(p. 29) corrects the quotation to ‘cast out remorse’.
19.
Ibid., p. 7.
20.
This is the reading in William Bell (ed.),
Poetry from Oxford in Wartime
(London: Fortune Press, 1944), p. 77, and also in the 1945 Fortune Press edition of
The North Ship
(not noted by Burnett). The 1966 reissue of
The North Ship
has the more correct but less tremulous plural ‘seraphim’.
21.
Letter from Bruce Montgomery to Larkin, 20 October 1944. Bodleian MS Eng. C.2762.
22.
The North Ship
, p. 8.
23.
Ibid.
24.
Ibid., p. 9.
25.
R. J. C. Watt, ‘“Scragged by embryo-Leavises”: Larkin reading his poems’,
Critical Survey
1.2 (1989), pp. 172–5, at p. 175.
26.
‘Ephemera’, l. 12: W. B. Yeats,
Selected Poetry
, ed. A. Norman Jeffares (London: Macmillan, 1962), p. 4.
27.
Ibid., p. 10.
28.
See Don Lee, ‘Coventry Godiva Festival Weekend: 4–6 May 1999’,
AL
8 (October 1999), p. 19.
29.
Postcard to his parents, 29 October 1946.
30.
To Alan Pringle, 23 August 1946.
SL
, p. 123.
5: The Novels (1943–5)
1.
John Banville, review of
Complete Poems
,
Guardian
, 25 January 2012.
2.
Interview with
Paris Review
,
RW
, p. 63.
3.
To Sutton, 10 August 1943.
SL
, pp. 61–2.
4.
RW
, p. 63.
5.
Jill
, Introduction, p. 13.
6.
To Sutton, 28 December 1940. Not in
SL
.
7.
Jill
, p. 97.
8.
To Sutton, 30 September 1943. Not in
SL
.
9.
To Sutton, 16 August 1943. Not in
SL
.
10.
To Sutton, 29 December 1943. Not in
SL
.
11.
Jill
, pp. 131–2.
12.
Théophile Gautier,
Mademoiselle de Maupin
, trans. R. and E. Powys Mathers (London: Folio Society, 1948), p. 87.
13.
Jill
, p. 149.
14.
Ibid., p. 152.
15.
Ibid., p. 186.
16.
Ibid., p. 188.
17.
Ibid., p. 211.
18.
Ibid.
19.
Ibid., p. 212.
20.
Ibid., p. 215.
21.
Ibid., p. 218.
22.
Ibid.
23.
Ibid., p. 219.
24.
Ibid., p. 124.
25.
Ibid., p. 230.
26.
Larkin must have in mind Earlsdon Library in Coventry, rather than the small, one-man library in Wellington.
27.
DPL/4/4, 1.
28.
To Sutton, 10 December 1944. Not in
SL
.
29.
To Sutton, 14 September 1944. Not in
SL
.
30.
To Sutton, 10 December 1944.
31.
AGW
, p. 27.
32.
Ibid., p. 44.
33.
Ibid., p. 48.
34.
Ibid., p. 69.
35.
Ibid., p. 142.
36.
DPL/4/4, inside cover opposite p. 1; DPL/4/4, p. 4.
37.
DPL/4/4, inside cover opposite p. 1.
38.
To Amis, 30 June 1981. See
LKA
, p. 925n.
39.
See Birte Wiemann, ‘Larkin’s Englishness: A German Perspective’,
AL
29 (April 2010), pp. 25–6.
40.
AGW
, pp. 87–8.
41.
Ibid., p.
113.
42.
Ibid., p. 130.
43.
Ibid., p. 69; Carol Rumens, ‘“I don’t understand cream cakes, but I eat them”: Distance and difference in
A Girl in Winter
’,
AL
29 (April 2010), pp. 7–12, at pp. 8–9.
44.
AGW
, pp. 158–9, 166–9.