Philip Larkin
Published on Nov 19, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
PHILIP LARKIN
“ I'd like to think...that people in pubs would talk about my poems."
CHILDHOOD
- Philip Larkin was born on August 9, 1922 in Coventry, Warwickshire
- The family lived in Radford, Coventry until Philip was a toddler
- When he reached the age of five, they moved to a three-storey house in Manor Road
- His father introduced him to Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot and James Joyce's work
EDUCATION
- His mother and sister educated him at home until he was eight
- Larkin then attended Coventry's King Henry VIII Junior School
- Then he progressed to Coventry's King Henry VIII Senior School
- Passing entrance exams, he studied at Oxford University in 1940
WORK
- His best works: 'Mr Bleaney', 'The Whitsun Weddings' and 'The Trees'
- Larkin's first poetry collection— The North Ship (1945) was heavily influenced by Yeats and
- not yet present the voice for which he later became famous for.
