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Reviewed on October 15, 2014 | Arts and Humanities
The tone of much of the writing on Philip Larkin's (1922–85) personal and professional life was set in Andrew Motion's unfavorable 1993 biography of the poet Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life. Other scholars—A. Alvarez, Richard Bradford, Lisa Jardine—have painted similar pictures of a depressive man whose casually racist views and attitudes toward women were often less than admirable. Now comes a corrective biography by...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
