Philip Larkin was that rare thing among poets: a household name in his own lifetime. Lines such as 'Never such innocence again' and 'Sexual intercourse began / In nineteen sixty-three' made him one of the most popular poets of the last century. Larkin's reputation as a man, however, has been more co[...]

Philip Larkin (1922-1985) is one of the most beloved poets in English. Yet after his death a largely negative image of the man himself took hold; he has been portrayed as a racist, a misogynist and a narcissist. Now Larkin scholar James Booth, for seventeen years a colleague of the poet's at the Uni[...]

?Jag skulle avsky om någon läste det jag skrivit för att han blivit tillsagd vad han ska tycka om det. Jag vill verkligen drabba folk, jag vill få läsaren att känna att japp, jag har aldrig tänkt på det viset, men det är så det är.? Orden är den engelske poeten Philip Larkins. Larkin, so[...]