Philip Larkin

Broschiertes Buch

Required Writing

Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982

Beschreibung

A work that features: reviews and critical assessments of writers and writing; pieces on jazz, mostly uncollected; some interviews given on various occasions.

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: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 124mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 224g
• ISBN-13: 9780571131204
• ISBN-10: 0571131204
• Artikelnr.: 21816110