Philip Larkin: The Man and his Work

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Palgrave Macmillan UK, Jan 1, 1989 - Literary Criticism - 184 pages
A collection of essays celebrating the talents of Philip Larkin, poet, critic and fiction writer who died in 1985. They range from Kingsley Amis' and Anthony Curtis' fine memoirs of Larkin's life at Oxford to William H.Pritchard's examination of some of the qualities in his poetry.

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About the author (1989)

Dale Salwak is a professor of English at southern California's Citrus College and a recipient of Purdue University's Distinguished Alumni Award as well as a National Defense Education Act fellowship from the University of Southern California where he earned his Ph.D. He is the author of numerous books, including "Kingsley Amis: Modern Novelist" and "Carl Sandburg: A Reference Guide," and the editor of "The Wonders of Solitude," "Anne Tyler as Novelist" (Iowa, 1994), "Philip Larkin: The Man and His Work" (Iowa, 1989), and "The Life and Work of Barbara Pym "(Iowa, 1987).

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