PL
's friendship with Jim Sutton
, dating from his schooldays,terminated abruptly in January 1952.
Brennan, Maeve. The Philip Larkin I Knew. Manchester University Press, 2002.
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One of his closest male friends, from his university days onwards, was the novelist Kingsley Amis
. The...
Publishing
Philip Larkin
Still struggling, PL
published in 1954 an untitled leaflet of poems with the Fantasy Press
of Eynsham in Oxfordshire (number 21 of their Fantasy Poets). His poems were also by this time being read...
Publishing
Philip Larkin
The Marvell Press
had been newly launched by George
and Jean Hartley
, who became his close friends, and who persuaded him to alter the title from Various Poems. The contract was not signed...
