Authors: James Booth
18.
J. R. Watson, ‘The Other Larkin’,
Critical Quarterly
17.4 (Winter 1975), p. 358. See also R. N. Parkinson, ‘To keep our metaphysics warm: A study of “Church Going” by Philip Larkin’,
Critical Survey
5 (Winter 1971), pp. 224–33.
19.
Richard Perceval Graves,
A. E. Housman: The Scholar-Poet
(London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979), p. 187.
20.
Brenda Moon, ‘Working with Philip Larkin’,
AL
8 (October 1999), p. 11.
21.
‘A Conversation with Ian Hamilton’,
FR
, p. 22.
22.
See
SL
, p. 289 (21 October 1958).
23.
Ibid., pp. 229–30.
24.
To Patsy Strang, 28 October 1954.
SL
, p. 231.
25.
18 October 1954.
LM
,
p.
120.
26.
LM
,
pp.
130–1.
27.
To Eva Larkin, 28 November 1954.
28.
LM
,
p.
133.
29.
23 September 1954.
LM
, p
.
116.
30.
LM
, p. 128.
31.
Ibid.
32.
See James Booth, ‘Competing Pulses: Secular and Sacred in Hughes, Larkin and Plath’,
Critical Survey
12.3 (2000), pp. 4–27; and ‘Larkin as Animal Poet’,
AL
22 (October 2006), pp. 5–9.
33.
LM
,
p.
119.
34.
Ibid.,
pp
.
119–20.
35.
Motion, p. 224.
36.
Hartley, p. 64.
37.
20 December 1954.
LM
,
p
.
134.
38.
LM
,
p.
137.
39.
15 February 1955.
LM
,
p
.
147.
40.
8 and 16 January 1955.
LM
,
pp
.
138–9.
41.
LM
,
pp
.
143–4n.
42.
29 January 1955.
LM
,
p
.
142.
43.
LM
,
p
.
145.
44.
Motion, p. 262.
45.
‘The Dedicated’, ‘Waiting for breakfast’, ‘Modesties’, ‘Oils’, ‘Who called Love conquering’, ‘Since the majority of me’ and ‘Arrival’. The Hartleys persuaded him to include ‘Spring’ and ‘No Road’, which he had initially excluded.
LM
,
p
.
143.
46.
8 April 1955.
LM
, p. 150. In a letter of 22 July 1955 Larkin told Monica that Jean Hartley had reported to him that ‘Judy Egerton has opted out of the printed list – the only one to do so’ (
LM
, p. 170). This was not the case. Judy Egerton’s name appears in the list of subscribers, and in a letter of 10 February 1956 Larkin refers to the Egertons’ copies as ‘
true bibliographical firsts
’ (
SL
, p. 257).
47.
26 October 1955.
LM
,
p
.
188.
48.
12 May 1956.
LM
,
p
.
203.
49.
LM
,
p
.
192.
50.
Blake Morrison,
The Movement: English Poetry and Fiction of the 1950s
(London: Methuen, 1980), p. 2.
51.
Letter to the
Spectator
(8 October 1954). Anthony Thwaite, ‘How It Seemed Then: An Autobiographical, Anecdotal Essay’, in Leader (ed.),
The Movement Reconsidered
, pp. 247–54.
52.
‘Statement’,
RW
, p. 79.
53.
Walter Pater,
The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry
(1873), ed. Adam Phillips (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986), p. 152.
54.
‘Statement’,
RW
, p. 79.
55.
Motion, p. 265.
56.
‘Maiden Name’, ‘Church Going’, ‘I Remember, I Remember’, ‘Skin’, ‘Born Yesterday’, ‘Triple Time’, ‘Toads’ and ‘Lines on a Young Lady’s Photograph Album’.
57.
Introduction to Robert Conquest (ed.),
New Lines: An Anthology
(London: Macmillan, 1962), p. xv.
58.
Letter to Conquest. Motion, p. 269.
59.
Charles Tomlinson, ‘The Middlebrow Muse’,
Essays in Criticism
, 7.2 (April 1957), pp. 208–17.
60.
Al Alvarez (ed.),
The New Poetry
(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1962), pp. 20–1.
61.
Interview with the
Observer
,
RW
, pp. 53–4.
62.
Amis was unable to place this set of parodies in
Encounter
or the
London Magazine
(see Leader (ed.),
The Movement
Reconsidered
,
pp 5–6). Zachary Leader published them in
LKA
, pp. 1141–4.
63.
The poem is misdated ‘1951’ in the 1988
Collected Poems
.
64.
27 September 1956.
LM
,
p. 207.
65.
David Lodge, ‘Philip Larkin: The Metonymic Muse’,
in Stephen Regan
(ed.),
Philip Larkin: Contemporary Critical Essays
(Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997), p. 72.
66.
Morrison,
The Movement: English Poetry and Fiction of the 1950s
.