Philip Larkin: Letters Home

In particular, it was the years during which he and his sister looked after their mother that shaped the writer we know so well: a number of poems written over this time are for her, and the mood of pain, shadow and despondency that characterises his later verse draws its strength from his experience of the long, lonely years of her senility.

• | By (Author): Philip Larkin
• | Publisher: Faber & Faber
• | Publication Date: Nov 01, 2018
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 688 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0571335594
• | ISBN-13: 9780571335596