Philip Larkin (78 page)

Archival Sources in the Hull University Collection, The History Centre, Hull

The U prefix is omitted in the notes
.

Other Archival Sources

British Library Add. MS. 52619: Larkin’s poetic workbook 1 (1944–50).

Unpublished letters not included in
Selected Letters
,
Letters to Monica
or
The Letters of Kingsley Amis
are cited by recipient and date only. The correspondences are held in the following institutions:

Kingsley Amis: The Huntington Library, California, AMS 353–428.

Monica Jones: The Bodleian Library, Oxford, Ms. Eng. c.7403–c.7445.

Introduction

    
1.
   Jonathan Raban, ‘Philip Larkin’, in
Driving Home:
An American Scrapbook
(London: Picador, 2010), p. 88.

    
2.
   http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/literature/20120422_Collected_Philip_Larkin__A_sobering_triumph_of_exquisitely_finished_poems.html?viewAll=y&c=y#ixzz1snyCEM65.

    
3.
   ‘Poets’ poll crowns Larkin king of verse’,
Guardian
, 15 October 2003, p. 8.

    
4.
   To Judy Egerton, 6 June 1982.
SL
,
p.
674.

    
5.
   
Complete Poems
, p. xxvi.

    
6.
   20 September 1945.
SL
, p. 110.

    
7.
   Oliver Marshall, ‘Stories from the Doldrums’,
Irish Times
, 18 May 2002, p. 8.

    
8.
   
Complete Poems
, p. xiii.

    
9.
   Dennis O’Driscoll, ‘Scraping the bottom of the waste paper basket’,
Irish Times
, 11 February 2012.

  
10.
   Paul Muldoon,
New York Times Sunday Book Review
, 19 April 2012.

  
11.
   To Patsy Strang, 12 July 1953.
SL
, p. 202.

  
12.
   W. N. Herbert and Matthew Hollis (eds),
Strong Words: Modern Poets on Modern Poetry
(Tarset: Bloodaxe Books, 2000), p. 150.

  
13.
   ‘Statement’,
RW
, p. 79.

  
14.
   ‘The Pleasure Principle’,
RW
, p. 89.

  
15.
   ‘A Conversation with Ian Hamilton’,
FR
, p. 24.

  
16.
   See R. J. C. Watt,
A Concordance to the Poetry of Philip Larkin
(Hildesheim: Olms-Weidmann, 1995).

  
17.
   Martin Amis, Introduction to
Philip Larkin: Poems
(London: Faber & Faber, 2011), p. x.

  
18.
   Motion, p. 313.

  
19.
   Interview with Mark Lawson,
Independent
, Sunday 7 March 1993.

  
20.
   Tom Paulin, letter to the
Times Literary Supplement
, 6 November 1992, p. 15.

  
21.
   David Mason, ‘What Will Survive of Us’,
Wall St Journal
, 14 April 2012.

  
22.
   Morten Hoi Jenssen, ‘Larkin’s Way’,
Paris Review
, 3 April 2012.

  
23.
   William Logan, review of
The Complete Poems
,
Poetry
(Chicago), September 2012. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/article/244462.

  
24.
   Martin Amis, review of
Letters to Monica
,
Guardian
, 23 October 2010.

  
25.
   Amis, Introduction to
Philip Larkin: Poems
, pp. xvii, xxii.

  
26.
   Hartley, p. 209.

  
27.
   Ibid.

  
28.
   Ibid., p. 215.

  
29.
   
Absalom and Achitophel
, ll. 545–6.

  
30.
   Professor Raymond Brett, personal communication, 1974.

  
31.
   Betty Mackereth, interview with the author, 9 February 2013.

  
32.
   Brian Dyson (ed.),
The Modern Academic Library: Essays in Memory of Philip Larkin
(London: Library Association, 1988).

  
33.
   See James Booth, ‘The Turf-cutter and the Nine-to-Five Man: Heaney, Larkin, and “the Spiritual Intellect’s Great Work”’,
Twentieth-Century Literature
43.4 (Winter 1997), pp. 369–93.

  
34.
   Amis, Introduction to
Philip Larkin: Poems
, p. xvii.

  
35.
   Interview with the
Observer
,
RW
, 51; ‘A Conversation with Ian Hamilton’,
FR
, p. 23.

  
36.
   Raban, ‘Philip Larkin’, p. 89.

  
37.
   Interview with the
Observer
,
RW
, pp. 47, 53–4, 48, 47.

  
38.
   Tom Paulin, ‘She Did Not Change: Philip Larkin’,
Minotaur: Poetry and the Nation State
(London: Faber & Faber, 1992), p. 236.

  
39.
   Anthony Thwaite (ed.),
Larkin at Sixty
(London: Faber & Faber, 1982), illustration opposite p. 60.

  
40.
   29 November 1952.
LM
, p. 94.

  
41.
   Interview with the
Observer
,
RW
, p. 52.

  
42.
   To Julian Barnes, 27 September 1985.
SL
, p. 751.

  
43.
   To Monica Jones, 16 November 1968. Not in
LM
.

  
44.
   Brennan, p. 24.

  
45.
   James Booth (ed.), ‘Larkin’s Second Dream Diary’,
AL
32 (October 2011), pp. 6–7.

  
46.
   Motion, p. 62.

  
47.
   Paul Bailey,
Independent
, 12 August 2005.

  
48.
   DX/329, inventory 600 pp. i–ix.

  
49.
   Nuala O’Faiolain,
Are You Somebody?
(New York: Henry Holt, 1996),
p.
66.