{"product_id":"9780571170487","title":"Philip Larkin : Selected Letters","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): n\/a, n\/a \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 01\/01\/1800,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 832 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780571170487,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe enormous popular appeal of Philip Larkin's poetry has long been established; but oddly little is known to his admiring public about the personality behind the work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Selected Letters will change this, throwing light on a more complex, and in many ways more remarkable, figure than most readers will be expecting. Whether addressing his literary friends - who included Barbara Pym, Kingsley Amis and John Betjeman - or those less prominently placed, Larkin shows himself to have been one of the frankest and most generously entertaining letter-writers of the century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConfessions, jokes, advice, scurrilities, pronouncements on literature and jazz, impromptu verses published here for the first time, gossip and wisdom abound in these pages. They give an astonishing view of a great poet's progress from brash youth to rueful age, and, in complementing the poems, provide a biographical document that no serious reader can afford to ignore.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697706991660,"sku":"9780571170487","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780571170487.jpg?v=1722600329","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780571170487","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}