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Kingsley Amis Anthony Curtis 2. John Betjeman, an Oxford University Chest Notes PREFACE 1. B. C. Bloomfield, 'Obituary: Philip Arthur Larkin', Library Association Record, vol. LXXXVIII (Jan. 1986) p. 19. 2. Larkin to Dale Salwak, 20 Sep. 1985. 3. Kingsley Amis, 'Professor Philip Larkin', University of Hull Bulletin, 16 Jan. 1986, p. 4. 4. Paul De Angelis on the occasion of a 'Celebration of Barbara Pym', held at the Gramercy Park Hotel, New York, 3 Oct. 1984. CHAPTER 1. FAREWELL TO A FRIEND Kingsley Amis 1. What follows was written to order for the Observer within a week of Philip Larkin's death. CHAPTER 2. LARKIN'S OXFORD Anthony Curtis 1. Philip Larkin, Required Writing (London: Faber and Faber, 1983; New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1984) p. 23. 2. John Betjeman, An Oxford University Chest (London: J. Miles, 1938). 3. Larkin, Jill, p. 228. 4. Philip Larkin, 'Not the Place's Fault', first published in Umbrella (Spring 1959) and included in An Enormous Yes: In Memoriam Philip Larkin (1922-1985), ed. Harry Chambers (Cornwall: Peterloo Poets, 1986) p. 52. 5. Philip Larkin, 'The Traffic in the Distance', in Required Writing, p. 274. Larkin acknowledged his debt to Hall in an interview in Tracks, vol. 1 (Summer 1967) pp. 5-10. 6. Julian Hall, The Senior Commoner (London: Victor Gollancz, 1933) p. 119. 7. The connection was observed by Pat Dale Scrimegeour in 'Philip Larkin's "Dockery and Son" and Julian Hall's The Senior Commoner', Notes and Queries. vol. n.s. xxxm (June 1986) p. 193. 8. Gavin Bone, Beowulf in Modern Verse, with an Essay and Pictures (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1945) p. v. The words are from the Preface by G. H. B., Bone's parent. 9. Ian Davie's published works include Aviator Loquitor (London: Fortune Press, 1943) and Piers Prodigal (London: Harvill, 1961) and Roman 169 170 Notes Pentecost (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1970). He also edited Oxford Poetry, 1942-1943 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1943). 10. William Bell, Elegies (London, n.d.) and Mountains Beneath the Horizon (London: Faber and Faber, 1950). 11. Both of these anthologies were published by R. A. Caton's Fortune Press, London, as were early collections of verse by Bell, Davie and Larkin. No one ever made a fortune through publishing with the Press, but many poets went away to the war knowing that their work was safely in print between stiff covers. 12. Michael Meyer, 'John Heath-Stubbs in the Forties', Aquarius, vol. x (Winter 1978) p. 10. 13. B. C. Bloomfield, Philip Larkin: A Bibliography, 1933-1976 (London: Faber, 1980) to which all Larkin scholars are deeply indebted. 14. Sidney Keyes and Michael Meyer (eds), Eight Oxford Poets (London: Routledge, 1941). The anthology was rejected by T. S. Eliot at Faber, but accepted by Herbert Read acting as poetry advisor for Routledge (Meyer, 'John Heath-Stubbs in the Forties', p. 12). 15. Ibid., p. 12. 16. See Larkin, Required Writing, pp. 19-21. 17. In conversation with the present writer. 18. See Larkin's 'Introduction' to Jill (London: Fortune Press, 1946; Faber and Faber, 1964, 1975; New York: Overlook Press, 1976); and for Wain's memories of Oxford c. 1944 see Sprightly Running: Part of an Autobiography (London: Macmillan, 1962) and the chapter on Nevil Coghill in Dear Shadows: Portraits from Memory (London: Macmillan, 1986). 19. Larkin, Required Writing, p. 24. CHAPTER 4. 'I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER', 1955-85 Maeve M. Brennan 1. E. R. Braithwaite, To Sir, With Love (London: Bodley Head, 1959). 2. Listen, vols 1-3 (Hessle: Marvell Press, 1954-60). 3. Philip Larkin, 'Sad Steps', High Windows (London: Faber and Faber; New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1974) p. 32. 4. Philip Larkin, 'A Lifted Study-Storehouse': The Brynmor Jones Library, 1929-1979, updated to 1985 with an Appreciation of Philip Larkin as Librarian by Maeve Brennan (Hull: Hull University Press, 1987; Philip Larkin Memorial Series no. 1) p. 9. 5. Larkin, Required Writing, p. 57. 6. Philip Larkin, 'Dockery and Son', The Whitsun Weddings (London and Boston, Mass.: Faber and Faber, 1964) p. 38. 7. Philip Larkin, 'The Building', High Windows, p. 26. 8. William Shakespeare, 'Sonnet no. 18', II. 11-14 (London: Thorpe, 1609). Notes 171 CHAPTER 5. 'GOODBYE, WITHERSPOON': A JAZZ FRIENDSHIP John White 1. Larkin to John White, 5 May 1983. 2. Philip Larkin, 'Crows and Daws', The American Scholar, 51 (Spring 1982) p. 290. 3. Ibid., pp. 288-9. 4. Philip Larkin, All What Jazz: A Record Diary, 1961-68 (London: Faber and Faber; New York: StMartin's Press, 1970, 1985) p. 290. 5. Larkin to John White, 8 May 1985. 6. Larkin to John White, 1 Oct. 1984. 7. Larkin to John White, 25 Nov. 1984. 8. Larkin, All What Jazz, p. 127. 9. Ibid., p. 131. 10. Ibid., p. 157. 11. Ibid., p. 196. 12. Ibid., p. 226. 13. Philip Larkin, 'Here', The Whitsun Weddings, p. 9. 14. Larkin, All What Jazz, p. 45. 15. Steve Voce, 'It Don't Mean a Thing', Jazz Journal International, vol. XXXIX Gan 1986) p. 9. 16. Ibid. 17. Larkin, All What Jazz, p. 41. CHAPTER 6. PHILIP LARKIN ABROAD Janice Rossen 1. Larkin, Required Writing, p. 55. 2. Larkin to Barbara Pym, PYM 151, fol. 51, dated 11 Sep. 1968. Hereafter numbers prefixed PYM are items in the collection of Barbara Pym's papers lodged at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. 3. PYM 151, fol. 72, 18 July 1971. 4. PYM 151, fol. 26, 7 Dec. 1963. 5. PYM 152, fol. 33, 21 Aug. 1978. 6. Larkin, Required Writing, p. 55. 7. Larkin to John Betjeman, 25 Feb. 1976. Lodged in the University of Victoria Library. 8. PYM 151, fol. 119, 28 Nov. 1976. 9. PYM 152, fol. 51, 14 Dec. 1979. 10. Larkin, Required Writing, p. 65. 11. Ibid., p. 54. 12. Ibid. 13. Conversation with Maeve Brennan, Former Sub-Librarian, and Brian Dyson, Archivist, Brynmor Jones Library. 14. PYM 151, fol. 27, 7 Dec. 1963. 15. Andrew Motion, Philip Larkin (London: Methuen, 1982) p. 19. 16. Larkin, Required Writing, p. 55. 172 Notes CHAPTER 7. AN INNOCENT AT HOME Noel Hughes 1. Larkin, Required Writing, p. 55. 2. Ibid., p. 47. CHAPTER 8. PHILIP LARKIN AND BARBARA PYM: TWO QUIET PEOPLE Hazel Holt 1. Pym to Larkin, 15 Apr., and Larkin to Pym, 17 Apr. 1975. 2. Philip Larkin, 'Reputations Revisited', The Times Literary Supplement, 21 Jan. 1977, pp. 66-7. 3. Philip Larkin, 'Foreword' to Barbara Pym, An Unsuitable Attachment (London: Macmillan; New York: E. P. Dutton, 1982) p. 5. Reprinted as 'The Rejection of Barbara Pym', in The Life and Work of Barbara Pym, ed. Dale Salwak (London: Macmillan; Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1987) p. 171. 4. Larkin to Pym, 15 July 1963. 5. Larkin to Pym, 20 May 1963, 3 Feb 1970, 29 May 1971, 14July 1964. 6. Larkin to Pym, 22 Feb 1977. 7. Pym to Larkin, 4 Mar 1977. 8. Larkin to Pym, 29 Oct 1977. 9. Larkin to Pym, 20 Sep 1977. 10. Pym to Larkin, 28 Oct 1979. 11. Pym to Larkin, 7 Apr 1964. 12. Larkin to Pym, 1 Oct and 18 Nov 1961. 13. Larkin to Pym, 15 July 1963, 8 Oct 1969, 13 Jan 1967, 5 June 1974, 22 Jan 1975. 14. Pym to Larkin, 12 Jan and 14 Sep 1964. 15. Larkin to Pym, 13 Jan and 3 Oct 1967, 18 Mar 1969. 16. Pym diary entry, 20 Aug 1968. 17. Larkin to Pym, 8 Apr 1963, 8 Oct 1969, 30 Aug 1965. 18. Larkin to Pym, 8 Apr 1963, 8 Oct 1969, 1 Nov 1979. 19. Pym to Larkin, 3 Nov 1963, and Larkin to Pym, 7 Dec 1963. 20. Pym to Larkin, 29 Jan 1978. 21. Larkin to Pym, 7 Jan 1965. 22. Pym diary entry, 23 Apr 1977. 23. Pym to Larkin, 15 Mar 1979. 24. Larkin to Pym, 18 July 1971. 25. Larkin to Hazel Holt, 29 Apr 1984. CHAPTER 9. LARKIN'S PRESENCE William H. Pritchard 1. Larkin, Required Writing, pp. 53-4. 2. Ibid., p. 194. Notes 173 3. Selected Prose of Robert Frost, ed. Hyde Cox and Edward Connery Lathem (New York: Collier Books, 1968) p. 18. 4. Larkin, Required Writing, p. 67. 5. Randall Jarrell's Letters, ed. Mary Jarrell (Boston, Mass.: Houghton­ Mifflin, 1985) p. 394. 6. Calvin Bedient, 'Philip Larkin', in Eight Contemporary Poets (London: Oxford University Press, 1974) p. 94. 7. John Bayley, Selected Essays (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984) p. 96. 8. Larkin, Required Writing, p. 47. 9. Ibid., p. 22. 10. Ibid., p. 50. 11. Philip Larkin, 'Louis MacNeice', New Statesman, 6 Sep 1963, p. 294. 12. Randall Jarrell, 'Poet, Critics, and Readers', in Kipling, Auden & Co.: Essays and Reviews, 1935-1964 (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980) p. 316. 13. Robert Frost, 'Carpe Diem', in The Poetry of Robert Frost, ed. Edward Connery Lathem (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972) p. 335. 14. Lowell to Jarrell, 11 Oct 1957. 15. A. Alvarez, Beyond All This Fiddle (New York: Random House, 1968) p.81. 16. Andrew Motion, 'This is Your Subject Speaking', The Times Literary Supplement, 2 July 1986, p. 143. 17. Larkin, Required Writing, p. 75. 18. James Dickey, Sorties (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1971) p. 89. 19. Larkin, Required Writing, p. 174. 20. Ibid., p. 70. 21. British and American Poets: Chaucer to the Present, ed. W. Jackson Bates and David Perkins (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986) p. 900. 22. Randall Jarrell's Letters, p. 413. 23. Brad Leithauser, 'America's Master of Former Verse', The New Republic, 24 Mar 1982, p. 16. CHAPTER 10. PHILIP LARKIN: VOICES AND VALUES J.
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