Philip Larkin

Broschiertes Buch

Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

Beschreibung

Philip Larkin met Monica Jones at University College Leicester in autumn 1946, when they were both twenty-four; he was the newly-appointed assistant librarian and she was an English lecturer. This title consists of nearly two thousand letters, which chronicle various aspects of Larkin's life and the convolutions of their relationship.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 154mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 618g
• ISBN-13: 9780571239108
• ISBN-10: 0571239102
• Artikelnr.: 33074253