Philip Larkin (88 page)

  
30.
   Winifred Dawson (née Arnott), personal communication, 6 February 2011.

  
31.
   Gilpin, ‘Patricia Avis and Philip Larkin’, p. 75.

  
32.
   Ibid., p. 74.

  
33.
   Motion, p. 230.

  
34.
   Colin and Patsy divorced shortly afterwards.

  
35.
   
SL
, p. 208.

  
36.
   
LM
, p. 105.

  
37.
   Ibid., pp. 104 and 105n.

  
38.
   7 August 1953. The passage and drawing are not in
LM
.

  
39.
   
RW
, p. 52.

  
40.
   Burnett notes this, but includes the work in
Complete Poems
without further explanation.

  
41.
   To Eva Larkin, 23 August 1953.

  
42.
   25 October 1953.

  
43.
   Havelock Ellis, British doctor, and author of early academic works on sexuality.

  
44.
   Dawson, ‘The Day I Met Monica’, pp. 6–7.

  
45.
   It appeared in
The Fantasy Poets 21
in 1954, and subsequently in
The Less Deceived
. In 1993 Motion (p. 235) related the poem to the relationship with Winifred Arnott.

  
46.
   
SL
, p. 216.

  
47.
   Ibid., pp. 215–17.

  
48.
   The poem is mistakenly dated ‘1951?’ in the 1988
Collected Poems
. See
Complete Poems
, p. 607.

  
49.
   Published, posthumously, under her maiden name, Patricia Avis (London: Virago, 1996).

  
50.
   
SL
, p. 232.

  
51.
   
LM
, pp. 60–1.

  
52.
   
LKA
, p. 273.

  
53.
   11 August 1951.
LM
, p. 51.

  
54.
   Janice Rossen, ‘Philip Larkin and
Lucky Jim
’,
Journal of Modern Literature
22.1 (Fall 1998), pp. 147–64.

  
55.
   24 July 1952.
LKA
, p. 288.

  
56.
   8 September 1952.
LKA
, p. 292.

  
57.
   11 September 1952.
LM
, p. 84.

  
58.
   Zachary Leader, ‘Making
Lucky Jim
’, in
The
Life of Kingsley Amis
(New York: Pantheon, 2006). See also Ross Gresham, ‘Larkin on the
Lucky Jim
Manuscript’,
AL
26 (October 2008), pp. 11–13.

  
59.
   Gresham, ‘Larkin on the
Lucky Jim
Manuscript’, p. 12.

  
60.
   Ibid.

  
61.
   Ibid.

  
62.
   Ibid., p. 13.

  
63.
   
LKA
, p. 292.

  
64.
   Richard Bradford,
The Odd Couple: The Curious Friendship between Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin
(London: Robson Press, 2012), pp. 106–7.

  
65.
   Motion, p. 169.

  
66.
   Bradford., p. 107.

  
67.
   
LM
, 110.

  
68.
   3 April 1953.
SL
, p. 195.

  
69.
   
SL
, pp. 201–2.

  
70.
   DPL/4/4; Motion, p. 240.

  
71.
   
SL
, pp. 221–2.

11: Various Poems (1953–6)

    
1.
   Hartley, p. 64.

    
2.
   3 February 1954.
SL
,
p.
222.

    
3.
   A Conversation with Neil Powell,
FR
, p. 31. Larkin was pleased that Auden noticed this complication.

    
4.
   Interview with
Paris
Review
,
RW
, p. 70.

    
5.
   Robert Conquest, ‘
New
Lines
, Movements, and Modernisms’, in Zachary Leader
(ed.),
The Movement Reconsidered: Essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, Davie, and their Contemporaries
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), p. 310.

    
6.
   ‘Born Yesterday’ was a late inclusion in
The Less Deceived
. ‘Philip felt that although it was slight, Kingsley might be annoyed if he left it out, especially as he intended to dedicate his book not to Kingsley but to Monica Jones. He thought Kingsley might have been expecting him to make a reciprocal gesture as he had dedicated
Lucky Jim
to Philip, thereby taking his name into a million households.’ Hartley, p. 85.

    
7.
   DPL/4/1/4.

    
8.
   
LM
, p.
416.

    
9.
   SL, p. 225.

  
10.
   See, for instance, N. F. Lowe, ‘Bruce Montgomery and Philip Larkin: Evidence of a ruptured relationship’,
AL
6 (October 1998), pp. 11–12.

  
11.
   
SL
,
p.
225.

  
12.
   Winifred Dawson, ‘Photograph Albums Revisited’,
AL
13 (April 2002), p. 4.

  
13.
   Raphaël Ingelbien, ‘The Uses of Symbolism: Larkin and Eliot’, in James Booth (ed.),
New Larkins for Old
(Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000), p. 134.

  
14.
   
LM
,
p.
210.

  
15.
   ‘
Would you call yourself an Anglican?
Half way there.
God?
Well, half way.’ James Booth, ‘Glimpses’ (interview with Monica Jones),
AL
12 (October 2001), p. 23.

  
16.
   3 August 1954.
LM
,
p.
112.

  
17.
   Ibid.