Philip Larkin - reading list
By Philip Larkin:
Collected Poems edited by Anthony Thwaite
(Marvell/Faber, 1988)
Selected Letters edited by Anthony Thwaite (Faber,
1992)
Jill (Fortune Press, 1946, reprinted by Faber,
1975)
A Girl in winter (Faber, 1947, reprinted 1975)
All What Jazz: a record diary 1961-68 (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)
'A Lifted Study-Storehouse': the Brynmor Jones Library,
1929-1979: a short account updated to 1985 by Maeve Brennan
(University of Hull, 1987)
About Philip Larkin:-
About Larkin: The Newsletter of the Philip Larkin
Society (April 1996)
Bloomfield, Barry, Philip Larkin: a bibliography,
1933-1976 (Faber, 1979)
Booth, James, Philip Larkin: Writer (Harvester,
1992)
Booth, James, Philip Larkin: The Poet's
Plight (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2005)
Chambers, Harry, editor, An Enormous Yes: in memoriam Philip
Larkin (1922-1982) (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, 1995)
Martin, Bruce K., Philip Larkin (Twayne, 1978)
Motion, Andrew, Philip Larkin: a writer's life (Faber,
1993)
Osborne, John, Larkin, Ideaology and Critical Violence: A
Case of Wrongful Conviction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
Plater, Alan, Sweet Sorrow: a play in two acts (Square
One,1990)
Rossen, Janice, Philip Larkin: his life's work
(Harvester, 1989)
Salwak, Dale, editor, 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)
Thwaite, Anthony, editor Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
(Faber, 2010)
Watt, RJC, Philip Larkin: A Concordance to the Poetry of
Philip Larkin (Hildesheim-Olms-Weidmann, 1995)
A brief biography of Philip
Larkin and details of Larkin related
collections are also available.