Philip Larkin

But for older cricket fans, who remembered the meagre fare of the BBC's haphazard live screening of tours in the 1980s, the myriad opportunities to follow it seemed like a paradise, to paraphrase Philip Larkin, we dreamed of all our lives.

Aussie cricket commentators have been a breath of fresh air on air | Rob Bagchi 2011

The language of 'seriousness' may recall Philip Larkin's famous 'Churchgoing' poem; but I think there is a difference between Larkin's seriousness, essentially a mood of rather sombre individual reflection strongly connected with the remembrance of death, and the seriousness of an art that invites its culture to self-examination and a degree of shared productive discomfort.

University of Chichester, Bishop George Bell lecture 2008

I like the verse of the late British poet Philip Larkin, and I'd heard he was also a great jazz critic, but I didn't discover this firsthand until I came across a copy of his prose collection, "Required Writing," at a Paris bookstore many years ago.

What an E-Reader Can't Download Danny Heitman 2011

"An Indian has written to ask what I think of Rabindrum sic Tagore," wrote Philip Larkin to his friend Robert Conquest in 1956.

Rabindranath Tagore was a global phenomenon, so why is he so neglected? | Ian Jack 2011

Two of Francis's warmest admirers were Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin, neither a frequenter of the racetrack.

The Case of the Missing Adventure Story Allan Massie 2011

The Archers, as written by Philip Larkin, is one of literature's great lost opportunities.

Radio review: A Month in Ambridge 2012

• Re all these fishy letters – Philip Larkin got there first Letters, 26 January.

Letters: Beam me up, Will 2011

She took as her models two unlikely sources; Philip Larkin and W.H.

The Life and Death and Art of Rachel Wetzsteon Con Chapman 2011

Philip Larkin might have had a thing or two to say about the Tiger Mother.

Larry Summers vs. the Tiger Mom Gerard Baker 2011

Even Philip Larkin, whose muse was tedium, found it dragged a bit, and he was a librarian in Hull.

Radio review: A Month in Ambridge 2012