Philip Larkin

The Whitsun Weddings

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Produktbeschreibung

Philip Larkin (1922-1985) remains England's best-loved poet - a writer matchlessly capable of evoking his native land and of touching all readers from the most sophisticated intellectual to the proverbial common reader.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 64
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 209mm x 124mm x 4mm
• Gewicht: 92g
• ISBN-13: 9780571097104
• ISBN-10: 0571097103
• Artikelnr.: 21100779

Autorenporträt

Philip Larkin, poet, novelist and librarian, was born in Coventry in 1922. He published four volumes of poetry - The North Ship (1945), The Less Deceived (1955), The Whitsun Weddings (1964) and High Windows (1974) - for which he received innumerable honours including the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and the WH Smith Award. He also wrote two novels, Jill (1946) and A Girl in Winter (1947), and his journalism is collected in two volumes, All What Jazz: A Record Diary and Required Writing: Miscellaneous Prose. He worked as librarian at the University of Hull from 1955 until his death in 1985. In 2003, he was chosen as Britain's best-loved poet of the previous fifty years by the Poetry Book Society; in 2008, The Times named him Britain's greatest post-war writer; and in 2016, a memorial stone in his name was unveiled in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.