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Further Requirements

Philip Larkin

Further Requirements by Philip Larkin gathers a selection of interviews, broadcasts, statements and reviews by the much-loved poet, by way of sequel to his highly praised Required Writing.

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Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780571216147
Date Published
04.11.2002
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Summary

Philip Larkin’s Required Writing, a selection from his miscellaneous prose from 1953-82, was highly praised and enjoyed when it appeared in 1983. Further Requirements gathers together many other interviews, broadcasts, statements and reviews. Some of them date from the period after he had chosen the contents of Required Writing; others come from obscure publications, including some early pieces. This second edition of Further Requirements includes two more essays by Larkin: ‘Operation Manuscript’ and his Introduction to Earth Memories by Llewelyn Powys.

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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…

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Poet Philip Larkin outside-the University Library in Hull
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