Articles on Philip Larkin, Including - The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse, Jill (Novel), Larkin at Sixty, MR Larkin's Awkward Day, Philip Larkin Society, Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940a 1985, Sally Amis (Paperback)

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