As an adult she was frequently engaged in serious, self-improving study. Her reading included ancient classics (Demosthenes
, Sophocles
, Juvenal
) and modern writings on conduct (Henrietta Maria Bowdler
's Essay on...
Intertextuality and Influence
Philip Larkin
Phippy, the skinny, inadequate, lower-class Hugh Minden Philipson, makes a progress from school . . . . . . to school
Larkin, Philip, and Rodney Fitzgerald. Incidents from Phippy’s Schooldays. Editors Allen, Brenda and James Acheson, Juvenilia Press, 2002.
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(first as pupil, then as teacher). A scholarship takes him to an evidently...