Full name: Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life

Author: Andrew Motion Year: 1982 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, Award winners, Poetry Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780571170654 057117065X

'An exemplary biography of its kind - detailed, meticulous and sympathetic.' Peter Ackroyd, The Times 'Larkin lived a quietly noble and exemplary version of the writer's life; Motion - affectionate but undeceived about the man's frailties, a diligent researcher and a deft reader of poetry - has written an equally exemplary 'Life' of him.' Peter Conrad, Observer 'Honest but not prurient, critical but also compassionate, Motion's book could not be bettered.' Alan Bennett, London Review of Books 'There will be other lives of Larkin, but Motion's, like Forster's of Dickens, will always have a special place.' John Carey, Sunday Times Similar books: Keats by Andrew Motion Walt Whitman by Justin Kaplan City Poet by Brad Gooch Rimbaud by Graham Robb Rimbaud by Edmund White Anne Sexton by Diane Middlebrook Byron by Benita Eisler Philip Larkin by James Booth Balzac by Stefan Zweig Victor Hugo by Graham Robb Samuel Beckett by Anthony Cronin Aldous Huxley by Nicholas Murray Tony Hancock by John Fisher The Knox Brothers by Penelope Fitzgerald Dorothy Day by William Miller Savage Beauty by Nancy Milford Arthur Rimbaud by Enid Starkie Yeats by Richard Ellmann After Kathy Acker by Chris Kraus Langston Hughes by Alice Walker