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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Philip Larkin
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(1922–85) Poet who has become probably the most widely enjoyed of his generation, largely because a very easy surface to the verse entices the reader in before revealing its resonances. Single lines to demonstrate the point can be chosen almost at random: 'Home is so sad. It stays as it was left'. From 1950 he was librarian of the Brynmor Jones Library of the university of Hull. His best-known lines, opening the 1967 poem Annus Mirabilis, have a topical rather than a typical wit: Sexual intercourse began In nineteen sixty-three (Which was rather late for me) – Between the end of the Chatterley ban And the Beatles' first LP.
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