21. Tetrameter: Philip Larkin Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don t have any kids yourself. philip larkin. http://www.tetrameter.com/larkin.htm

This Be The Verse They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you. But they were fucked up in their turn By fools in old-style hats and coats, Who half the time were soppy-stern And half at one another's throats. Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don't have any kids yourself. Philip Larkin

22. Coventry And Warwickshire Network (CWN) - Philip Larkin A timeline of philip larkin s life and works. http://www.coventry.org.uk/heritage/people/larkin/

Philip Larkin MAJOR ACHIEVEMENT: Poet / Writer BORN 9 August 1922 in Coventry [This was the same year as Kingsley Amis and Donald Davis who were later associated with him in the group that came to be known as 'the Movement' - the dominant literary voice of the 1950's] DIED 2 December 1985 of cancer of the oesophagus FAMILY The only son and younger child of Sydney and Eva Larkin. Sydney was City Treasurer of Coventry 1922-44; he died from cancer in 1948 at the age of 63. Eva lived to be 91 and died on 17 November 1977. The family lived in Coventry 1922-40 King Henry VIII School, Coventry Contributed regularly to 'The Coventrian', the school magazine, including 'Winter Nocturne' in December 1938 Joint Editor of 'The Coventrian' St Johns College, Oxford Failed his army eyesight test and was therefore able to complete his degree uninterrupted. Graduated with a First Class Honours degree in English in 1943 First poem 'Ultimatum' published in a national weekly 'The Listener' [28 November] Three of his poems were included in 'Oxford Poetry 1942-43' After graduating returned to his parents' new home in Warwick to search for a job. Failed twice to enter the Civil Service. Eventually in November he was appointed to the post of Librarian at Wellington, Shropshire

23. Guardian Unlimited: Arts Blog - Books: Larkin's Books Are No Load Of Crap I was turned on to philip larkin by the cuss words, and stayed for the sad . My partner of 8 yrs sent me philip larkin s This Be The Verse a couple weeks http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/03/larkins_books_are_not_a_load_o.html

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24. Philip Larkin (1922-1985) philip larkin (19221985). This Be The Verse / Days / Church Going / I Remember, I Remember / Home is so Sad / The Trees Breadfruit / Sad Steps / The http://www.mrbauld.com/larkpms2.html

Philip Larkin (1922-1985) This Be The Verse / Days / Church Going / I Remember, I Remember / Home is so Sad / The Trees Breadfruit / Sad Steps / The Building / To the Sea Many famous feet have trod / Next, Please Heads in the Women's Ward / The View / Good for you, Gavin First Sight / Tops This Be The Verse They fuck you up, your mum and dad They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you. But they were fucked up in their turn By fools in old-style hats and coats, Who half the time were soppy-stern And half at one another's throats Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don't have any kids yourself. Days What are days for? Days are where we live. They come, they wake us Time and time over. They are to be happy in: Where can we live but days? Ah, solving that question Brings the priest and the doctor In their long coats Running over the fields. Church Going I Remember, I Remember

25. Philip Larkin - Poetry Archive philip larkin (19221985) is a poet whose very name conjures up a specific persona the gloomy, death-obsessed and darkly humorous observer of human foibles http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=7076

26. Larkin, Philip | Authors | Guardian Unlimited Books Andrew Motion s friendship with larkin began in 1976 when Motion went to Hull to teach English. His philip larkin A Writer s Life won the 1993 Whitbread http://books.guardian.co.uk/authors/author/0,,-206,00.html

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27. 3quarksdaily For Gerard Manley Hopkins there was Heavenhaven, when a nun takes the veil, and perhaps a poet-priest seeks refuge, but for philip larkin there is no http://3quarksdaily.blogs.com/3quarksdaily/2006/04/philip_larkin_h.html

ABOUT US ARCHIVES LINKS RSS ... MONDAY COLUMNS An Eclectic Digest of Science, Art and Literature Main April 10, 2006 Philip Larkin: Hull-Haven Australian poet and author Peter Nicholson writes ’s Poetry and Culture column (see other columns here ). There is an introduction to his work at peternicholson.com.au and at the NLA For Gerard Manley Hopkins there was Heaven-haven, when a nun takes the veil, and perhaps a poet-priest seeks refuge, but for Philip Larkin there is no heaven. There is Hull, and that is where Larkin, largely free of metropolitan London’s seductions, finds his poetry and his poetics. Old chum Kingsley, it seems, can do his living for him there. But Larkin has more than two strings to his bow too, which awkward last meetings around the death bed show only too plainly. Now that the usual attempts at deconstruction have almost run their course, the time has come to look at the work left. Pulling people off their plinth is a lifetime task for some who never get around to understanding that some writers say more, and more memorably, than they can ever do. Also, they don’t seem to understand that writers are just like everyone else, only with the inexplicable gift, which the said writer understands least of all, knowing that the gift, bestowed by the Muse, can depart in high dudgeon without notice. Larkin knew this, and lamented the silences of his later years. Silence does seem to wait through his poems. They bleakly open to morning light, discover the world’s apparent heartlessness, then close with a dying fall. Occasionally ‘long lion days’ blaze, but the usual note is meditative, and sometimes grubby. What mum and dad do to you has to be lived out

28. Dr Philip Larkin: Improving Wheat And Poppy Crops (Resume) Dr philip larkin researches wheat germplasm improvement and metabolic engineering of opium poppy. http://www.csiro.au/people/philip.larkin.html

About CSIRO Doing Business Publications Careers ... Contact Us CSIRO Plant Industry Home Divisions CSIRO Plant Industry Search all CSIRO Search this site The Wellbeing Plan for Children Total Wellbeing Diet Biotechnology Innovations for Industry ... Subscription Information Resume Dr Philip Larkin researches wheat and opium poppy metabolic engineering. Dr Philip Larkin: improving wheat and poppy crops Dr Philip Larkin researches wheat germplasm improvement and metabolic engineering of opium poppy. Current activities Background Academic qualifications Achievements Dr Philip Larkin is Sub Program Leader, High Rainfall Zone Cropping and his research activities are divided between: wheat germplasm improvement metabolic engineering of opium poppy. His team is currently focussing on recombining two alien chromosomal fragments to combine their good genes and eliminate their deleterious genes. New sources of deployable virus resistance are also being developed. By enhancing the expression of various genes responsible for morphine biosynthesis the yield of valuable pharmaceuticals has been increased. His previous research includes: somatic hybridisation the molecular biology of condensed tannin synthesis white clover transformation.

29. The Greenbelt: Happy Birthday, Philip Today in 1922, in Coventry, England, philip larkin was born. In his day was considered one of England s best poets although he wrote only 117 poems. http://thegreenbelt.blogspot.com/2007/08/happy-birthday-philip.html

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30. Literary Connections: Philip Larkin The philip larkin Society bibiliography, a poem of the month, a letter from larkin and more. The links page includes references to some interesting http://www.literaryconnections.co.uk/resources/larkin.html

Home About Links Resources ... Contact Philip Larkin (1922 - 1985) Larkin - the hermit of Hull Larkin - librarian but not laureate (his own choice, that: he was offered the post a year before his death) - can seem preoccupied with how 'man hands on misery to man' ( This Be The Verse ). He even appears to describe himself, in Posterity , as 'one of those old-type natural fouled-up guys' and is reputed to have said: 'Deprivation is for me what daffodils were to Wordsworth.' A similar tone can be heard in in High Windows . According to the Encyclopedia Britannica , this French term means 'witty, typically ironic, light verse, written with polish and ease of expression to amuse a sophisticated audience' - not (as one student tried to explain) someone excluded from society, though in a way that does catch something of what the narrator of the poem feels: And sitting by a lamp more often brings Not peace, but other things. Beyond the light stand failure and remorse Whispering Dear Warlock-Williams: Why, of course - But beware of simplification and of being deceived by such an ironic voice: I think you'll find there's more to the old guy than that. Consider

31. Powell's Books - Collected Poems By Philip Larkin One of the bestknown and best-loved poets of the English-speaking world, philip larkin had only a small number of poems published during his lifetime. http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0374529205-0

32. Philip Larkin Life Stories, Books, & Links Stories about philip larkin s life and A Girl in Winter, Collected Poems, Further Requirements, High Windows, Jazz Essays and Reviews, Required Writing. http://www.todayinliterature.com/biography/philip.larkin.asp

TABLE OF CONTENTS Philip Larkin - Life Stories, Books, and Links Biographical Information Stories about Philip Larkin Selected works by this author Selected books about / related to this author ... Recommended links BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Philip Larkin (1922 - ) Category: English Literature Born: 1922 Coventry, England Hull, England Related authors: Martin Amis W. H. Auden list all writers Philip Larkin - LIFE STORIES Philip Larkin as Monument and Sewer On this day in 1922 Philip Larkin was born. Larkin's mordant tone and accessible verse became so popular in mid-twentieth-century Britain that he was offered the Poet Laureateship shortly before his death in 1985-a position which he characteristically declined. Over the next decade, after his Collected Poems , his Selected Letters and a biography by Andrew Motion (the current Poet Laureate) appeared, some found "the sewer under the national monument Larkin became." Lady Chatterley,

33. Sacramentalism In The Poetry Of Philip Larkin A study of philip larkin s four volumes of poetry, The North Ship (1945), Being Different from Yourself philip larkin in the 1970 s. http://www.montreat.edu/dking/General essays/SacramentalisminthePoetryofPhilipLa

© 1994 Don W. King Material in this essay may be used as long as appropriate acknowledgment is given to the author Sacramentalism in the Poetry of Philip Larkin A study of Philip Larkin's four volumes of poetry, The North Ship The Less Deceived The Whitsun Weddings (1964), and High Windows (1974), confirms that his poetry is "an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are" ("Big Victims" 368). Typically his is a skeptical vision; indeed, he has been called "unillusioned, with a metaphysical zero in his bones" (Bedient 70). David Timms argues that Larkin's poetry as a whole "sees life as a bleak, sometimes horrifying business" (97). Ian Hamilton agrees and adds that the biggest problem with Larkin's poetry is its "rather narrow range of negative attitudes" (102). Eric Homberger calls him "the saddest heart in the post-war supermarket" (74), while Geoffrey Thurley writes about Larkin's "central dread of satisfaction" (145). It must be admitted that there is a strong current of skepticism running through Larkin's poetry. In "Kick up the fire, and let the flames break loose" from

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35. Philip Larkin On LibraryThing | Catalog Your Books Online Also known as edited by philip larkin, philip (ed) Larken, P. larkin, philip larkin comp, There are 17 conversations about philip larkin s books. http://www.librarything.com/author/larkinphilip

Language: English [ others Albanian Basque Bulgarian ... Welsh Over twenty-two million books on members' bookshelves. Home Book Suggestions Zeitgeist Groups ... add a picture Author: Philip Larkin Also known as: edited by Philip Larkin Philip (ed) Larken P. Larkin Philip Larkin comp ... Phillip Larkin Members Reviews Rating Favorited Conversations Books by Philip Larkin combine/separate works Collected poems 635 copies, 7 reviews High windows 181 copies, review The Whitsun weddings 178 copies, review Jill : a novel 85 copies, review 80 copies, 1 review A girl in winter : a novel 75 copies, 1 review 58 copies, 1 review 56 copies, review The north ship 36 copies, review The less deceived : poems 27 copies, review All what jazz : a record diary 1961-1971 24 copies, review 14 copies, review 11 copies, review Larkin's jazz : essays and reviews, 1940-84 4 copies, review Early Poems 4 copies, review see all 22 books Member ratings Average: 0.5 stars 1 stars 1.5 stars 2 stars 2.5 stars 3 stars 3.5 stars 4 stars 4.5 stars 5 stars Common Knowledge Share what you know.

36. Next, Please - Poem By Philip Larkin Next, Please by philip larkin Always too eager for the future, we Pick up bad habits of expectancy. Something is always approaching; every day Till. http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/philip_larkin/poems/14537

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37. Philip Larkin (1922-1985) In 1962 Wellington Library was enlarged and modernised and philip larkin returned to the town where he was still affectionately remembered to formally open http://www3.shropshire-cc.gov.uk/larkin.htm

[Content] www.literaryheritage.org.uk Home People Places Themes ... Site map Philip Larkin Profile Poet, also the author of two novels and various essays. Philip Arthur Larkin was born in Coventry After graduation from Oxford, in 1943, he returned to his parents home, now in Warwick, and tried to unsuccessfully to join the Civil Service. Instead he became a librarian, a profession in which he remained for the rest of his life. His first post was in the Public Library at Wellington , Shropshire, where he spent three years, from November 1943. Here he was able to meet up regularly with Robert Bruce Montgomery (the novelist, Edmund Crispin ), his friend from St. John's, who was teaching at nearby Shrewsbury School. It seems that Wellington made an impression on him and certainly the library did, for, in antiquated premises, he had to stoke a reluctant boiler, shelve hundreds of equally antiquated and dust laden books and, virtually single-handed, attempt to bring the service into the twentieth century. During this time he was writing a novel and working on some of his early poems. In 1962 Wellington Library was enlarged and modernised and Philip Larkin returned to the town where he was still affectionately remembered to formally open the building. He recalled his early introduction to librarianship in Wellington in a witty, nostalgic article in The Library Association Record , October 1977.

38. Philip Larkin — Infoplease.com larkin, philip, 1922–85, English poet. He graduated from St. John s College, Oxford (B.A., Related content from HighBeam Research on philip larkin http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0828895.html

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39. Philip Larkin - Research And Read Books, Journals, Articles At Research philip larkin at the Questia.com online library. http://www.questia.com/library/literature/philip-larkin.jsp

40. 34061. Larkin, Philip. The Columbia World Of Quotations. 1996 34061. larkin, philip. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. http://www.bartleby.com/66/61/34061.html

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