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Philip Larkin (1922-1985) is one of the most beloved poets in British. Yet after his death a mainly negative image of the man himself took keep; he has been portrayed as a racist, a misogynist and a narcissist. Now Larkin scholar James Booth, for seventeen years a colleague of the poet's at the College or university of Hull, offers a very different portrait. Attracted from years of research and a multitude of Larkin's friends and correspondents, this is actually the most comprehensive portrait of the poet yet shared. Booth traces the occurrences that designed Larkin in his formative years, from his early on life when his his political instincts were neutralised by contact with his father's controversial Nazi principles. He studies how the academics environment and your competition he sensed with colleagues such as Kingsley Amis educated not only Larkin's poetry, but also his little-known ambitions as a novelist. From the places and people Larkin encountered over the course of his life, including Monica Jones, with whom he had a tumultuous but long lasting relationship, Booth bits together an image of a rather reserved and delicate man, whose personality - and poetry - have been misinterpreted by ages of academic study. Philip Larkin: Life, Artwork and Love discloses the man behind what as he hasn't been seen before.
