These letters throw light on a more complex figure than most readers will probably be expecting. Whether addressing his literary friends, who included Barbara Pym, Kinglsey Amis and John Betjeman, or those less prominently placed, Larkin shows himself to be a frank and generous letter-writer. Confessions, jokes, advice, scurrilities, pronouncements on literature and jazz, impromptu verses, published here for the first time, gossip and wisdom abound in these pages. They offer a view of a poet's progress from brash youth to rueful age, and in complementing the poems, provide a biographical document for the serious reader.
- ISBN10 0571151973
- ISBN13 9780571151974
- Publish Date 17 February 1993
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 July 1996
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 736
- Language English