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Philip Larkin (1922 - 1985 / West Midlands / England)
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Philip Larkin was born in 1922 in Coventry, England. He attended St. John's College, Oxford. His first book of poetry, The North Ship, was publish .. more >>

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  ''Such attics cleared of me! Such absences!''
Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "Absences."
 
  ''All the unhurried day
Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.''
Philip Larkin (1922-1985), British poet. Deceptions (l. 8-9). . . Collected Poems of Philip Larkin. Anthony Thwaite, ed. (1988) Farrar, Straus and...
 
  ''But o, photography! as no art is,
Faithful and disappointing!''
Philip Larkin (1922-1985), British poet. Lines on a Young Lady's Photograph Album (l. 16-17). . . Collected Poems of Philip Larkin. Anthony Thwait...
 
  ''We all hate home
And having to be there:
I detest my room,
Its specially-chosen junk,
The good books, the good bed,
And my life, in perfect order.''
Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "Poetry of Departures."
 
  ''Suddenly clouds of snow
Begin assaulting the air,
As falling, as tangled
As a girl's thick hair.''
Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "The North Ship."
 

 
 
 
 
 
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