Record Number: 20280
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'This "new direction" [in literature], Larkin was beginning to realize, would depend on subtlety as well as candour - the sort of approach he was learning to associate with other writers he now re-read, or read for the first time. With Henry Green and Virginia Woolf (he admired "The Waves"); with Julian Hall, whose novel of public school life "The Senior Commoner" he approved for its "general atmosphere of not shoing one's feelings in public"; and with Katherine Mansfield. "I do admire her a great deal", he told Sutton, "and feel very close to her in some things".'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Oct 1940 and 1 Jul 1943
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Oxford
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:9 Aug 1922
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:later poet
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[unknown]
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Unknown
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Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:20280
Source:Andrew Motion
Editor:n/a
Title:Philip Larkin. A Writer's Life
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1993
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Page:43
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Andrew Motion, Philip Larkin. A Writer's Life, (London, 1993), p. 43, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=20280, accessed: 17 August 2024
Additional Comments:
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