Philip Larkin, poet, novelist and librarian, was born in Coventry in 1922. He published four volumes of poetry -
The North Ship (1945),
The Less Deceived (1955),
The Whitsun Weddings (1964) and
High Windows (1974) - for which he received innumerable honours including the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and the WH Smith Award. He also wrote two novels,
Jill (1946) and
A Girl in Winter (1947), and his journalism is collected in two volumes,
All What Jazz: A Record Diary and
Required Writing: Miscellaneous Prose. He worked as librarian at the University of Hull from 1955 until his death in 1985.
In 2003, he was chosen as Britain's best-loved poet of the previous fifty years by the Poetry Book Society; in 2008,
The Times named him Britain's greatest post-war writer; and in 2016, a memorial stone in his name was unveiled in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.
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