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Arnold Trevor Tolley was born in Birmingham on 15 May 1927 and educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and Queen's College Oxford. He has taught at a number of universities including in Finland (1955-1961), Australia (1961-1965) and was professor of Comparative Literature at Carleton University in Canada (1967-1996). He has published a number of books on Larkin including Larkin at Work (1997) a detailed study of all of Philip Larkin's Workbooks and Early Poems and Juvenilia, by Philip Larkin (2005). He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1998.

Professor Tolley describes the process (see U DX281/9) of undertaking this work which began with the workbook in the British Library in 1981 and then the items at the University Archives between 1993-1999. In both sets of the pages were made to correspond with the original workbooks.

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Comprehensive notes relating to Philip Larkin's Poetry Workbooks, from those held at Hull University Archives and at the British Library. Features a page by page note of annotations, corrections and also records details of any portraits and where the text has been dated.