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|---|---|---|
| Employer | Philip Larkin | He had so far no qualifications for librarianship beyond his degree in English literature, and left to himself he might well have continued to live at home with his parents and work on his novel... |
| Performance of text | Rosamond Lehmann | A new departure for RL
was a lecture on Elizabeth Gaskell
, which she gave at Leicester University
in autumn 1953. |
| Reception | Elaine Feinstein | EF
became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
in 1980. In 1990 she won the Cholmondeley Award for Poetry and was given an Honorary DLitt by the University of Leicester
. Falconer, Helen. “Saturday Review: Family Affairs”. The Guardian, 13 Jan. 2001, p. 10. 10 Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. Feinstein, Elaine. Selected Poems. Carcanet, 1994. back cover |
| Reception | Kathleen Raine | In 1974 she was awarded an Honorary DLitt by the University of Leicester
. Two more such degrees followed from Durham
in 1979 and the University of Caen
in France, 1987. Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black, 1849–2024, Annual Volumes. |
| Reception | Philip Larkin | PL
declined the poet laureateship, which was offered him after John Betjeman
died (on 19 May 1984), on the grounds that he was no longer a practising poet. His many honorary doctorates included those with... |
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