Living in towns "where only salesmen and relations come," refusing to read or lecture before an audience, he was by the end of his life affectionately known as "the hermit of Hull." At sixty he promised that as soon as he saw "the Grim Reaper coming up the path" he would burn all his personal papers. "Philip Larkin was one of the greatest and most popular English poets of the twentieth century, and also one of the most private. Includes bibliographical references and index
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