Papers of Philip Arthur Larkin

Dates:  
1816-1992

Related Material

Related Material:

Philip Larkin's personal library

Philip Larkin's personal record collection (LPs and 78s)

Philip Larkin's photograph collection [U DLV]

Papers of the Larkin family [U DLN]

Correspondence with numerous friends, fellow poets, colleagues etc, including: Barry Bloomfield [U DX213], Colin Gunner [ U DP179], Brenda Moon, [U DX257], Andrew Motion [U DP207], James Sutton [U DP174 and U DP182], Ted Tarling [U DP177], Anthony Thwaite [U DP181]

Papers of Anthony Thwaite relating to his editorship of "Larkin at Sixty" [U DP/188] and as literary executor to Philip Larkin [U DAT, uncatalogued]

Papers of Monica Jones [U DMA uncatalogued]

Photocopies of letters from Larkin to Monica Jones (collated by Anthony Thwaite as part of his research) [U DX341]

Books given to Monica Jones by Philip Larkin

Papers of Maeve Brennan [U DMB uncatalogued and closed to 2033]

Philip Larkin book collection [P/L] Published works by or about Larkin

Other repositories:

Larkin Workbook No 1, British Library [Ad. Ms 52619]

Correspondence between Philip Larkin and Monica Jones, Bodleian Library: Department of Western Manuscripts

Publication Notes:
Works By Philip Larkin:
Collected poems / edited by Anthony Thwaite (Marvell Press / Faber & Faber, 1988)
Selected letters / edited by Anthony Thwaite (Faber, 1992)
Jill (Fortune Press, 1946)
A Girl in Winter (Faber, 1947)
All What Jazz: a record diary 1961-1968 (Faber, 1970)
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English verse / chosen by Philip Larkin (Clarendon Press, 1973)
Required writing: miscellaneous pieces, 1955 - 1982 (Faber, 1983)
The Brynmor Jones Library 1929-1979: a short account (University of Hull, 1987)
Trouble at Willow Gables / edited by James Booth (Faber, 2002)

Works About Philip Larkin:
About Larkin: the Newsletter of the Philip Larkin Society (1996 - in progress)
Bloomfield, Barry, Philip Larkin: a bibliography, 1933-1976 (Faber, 1979)
Booth, James, Philip Larkin, writer (Harvester, 1992)
Chambers, Harry, editor, An enormous yes: in memorium Philip Larkin (Peterloo Poets, 1986)
Dyson, Brian, editor, The Modern Academic Library: essays in memory of Philip Larkin (Library Association, 1989)
Hartley, George, editor, Philip Larkin 1922-1985: a tribute (Marvell Press, 1988)
Hartley, Jean, Philip Larkin, the Marvell Press, and Me (Carcanet, 1989)
Hartley, Jean, Philip Larkin's Hull and East Yorkshire (The Brynmor Jones Library and Hutton Press)
Martin, Bruce K., Philip Larkin (Twayne, 1978)
Motion, Andrew, Philip Larkin: a writer's life (Faber, 1993)
Plater, Alan, Sweet Sorrow: a play in two acts (Square One, 1990)
Rossen, Janice, Philip Larkin: his life's work (Harvester, 1989)
Salwak, Dale, Philip Larkin: the man and his work (Macmillan, 1989)
Swarbrick, Andrew, Out of reach: the poetry of Philip Larkin (Macmillan, 1995)
Thwaite, Anthony, editor, Larkin at Sixty (Faber, 1982)
Tolley, Trevor, Larkin at work: a study of Larkin's mode of composition as seen through his workbooks (Hull University Press/The Philip Larkin Society, 1997)
Tolley, Trevor, My proper ground: a study of the work of Philip Larkin and its development (Edinburgh University Press, 1991)
Watt, R J C, Philip Larkin: a concordance to the poetry of Philip Larkin (Hildesheim-Olms-Weidmann, 1995)
Whalen, Terry, Philip Larkin and English poetry (Macmillan, 1986)