Born Coventry. Larkin spent 30 years in the northern port city of Hull working as a university librarian. He shunned the limelight, refusing to appear on television and turning down a request to become Poet Laureate after John Betjeman's death.
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Philip Larkin
The Whitsun Weddings (recalling a train journey on Whitsun Saturday afternoon...
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Silver Jubilee urn
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