Selected letters of Philip Larkin, 1940-1985 /
There are over 700 letters in this impressive collection, to more than fifty recipients, dating from Larkin's late teens until close to his death at the age of sixty-three. He never stopped writing letters, whatever other writing droughts he suffered. Early letters to school friends including t...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus, Giroux,
[1993]
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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| Summary: | There are over 700 letters in this impressive collection, to more than fifty recipients, dating from Larkin's late teens until close to his death at the age of sixty-three. He never stopped writing letters, whatever other writing droughts he suffered. Early letters to school friends including the writer Kingsley Amis form a portrait of the young artist, full of jazz, literature and obscenities; later correspondents include Barbara Pym, Robert Conquest, and his editors Faber and Faber, especially Charles Montieth. |
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| Item Description: | The Cushing Library Lit/Mitchell copy is a donation from J. Lawrence Mitchell. Includes index. Facsims. on lining papers. |
| Physical Description: | xxxvi, 791 pages : illustrations, [16] pages of plates ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 0374258295 9780374258290 0571151973 9780571151974 |