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Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica, page 59
holiday in Lake District with PL, 1;
pregnancy fears prove unjustified, 1;
holiday in Warwick with PL, 1;
holiday in Scotland with PL, 1;
visits PL in Ireland, 1;
holiday in York with PL, 1, 2;
holiday on Sark with PL, 1, 2;
love-making with PL, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
insecurity about whether good at job, 1;
possibility of taking up visiting appointment at Queen’s, New York, 1;
holiday in Devon with PL, 1;
introductory lecture for new students, 1;
problems with work, 1;
worries about father, 1;
mother ill too, 1;
feeling not grown up, 1;
parents’ deaths, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
visits PL, 1;
holiday on Sark with PL, 1, 2, 3;
visits Lincoln with PL, 1;
visits PL in hospital, 1;
will plans, 1;
moves to Cross Road, 1n;
buys cottage in Haydon Bridge, 1n, 2;
and Ruddick, 1, 2, 3, 4;
works on re-issue of Jill, 1, 2n;
worries about work, 1;
jealousy of Brennan, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
burgled, 1;
residential course at Harlaxton, 1, 2;
conference at York University, 1, 2;
mentioned in foreword to OBTCEV, 1;
invited to run course on PL’s poetry, 1;
moves to Knighton Park Road, 1, 2;
hospitalised after fall down stairs, 1;
home from hospital, 1;
taken in by PL to be cared for, 1
Jope, E. M., 1n
Jourdain, Eleanor, 1
Joyce, James, 1n, 2, 3
Judith (Hull University Library), 1
Just Fancy (radio series), 1
Keats, John, 1, 2, 3
Kennedy, John F., 1, 2, 3
Kennedy, Joseph, 1
Kenner, Hugh, 1
Kenyon, J. P., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Kermode, Frank, 1n
Kilmarnock, Lord, 1
Kilvert’s Diary, 1
King’s Lynn, 1, 2
Kingsley, Charles: Alton Locke, 1
Kinsella, Thomas, 1n, 2
Kipling, Rudyard, 1, 2, 3, 4;
‘The Gods of the Copybook Headings’, 1
Klingopoulos, G. D., 1n
Knight, G. Wilson, 1
Ladnier, Tommy, 1n
Lake, Elizabeth, 1
Lake District, 1
‘Lambs’, 1, 2, 3, 4
Landseer, Sir Edwin, 1
Langbaum, Robert: The Poetry of Experience, 1
Larkin, Alfred (PL’s uncle), 1, 2
Larkin, Eva (PL’s mother): courtship
with husband, 1;
husband’s death, 1;
PL’s relationship with, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12;
PL worries whether should live with, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
and MJ, 1;
PL continues to feel guilty about, 1;
refuses MJ’s invitation to tea, 1, 2;
PL takes to Weymouth, 1n, 2;
possibility of PL living with raised again, 1, 2;
MJ on this, 1, 2n;
flu attack, 1;
PL on her character, 1, 2, 3;
PL visits, 1;
birthday litany, 1;
hopes PL will marry, 1;
in PL’s poetry, 1;
in hospital, 1;
PL on her as widow, 1;
PL spends Christmas with, 1;
visits PL, 1;
PL visits, 1;
and PL’s will, 1;
holiday in Bournemouth with PL, 1;
friends’ decline, 1;
PL visits, 1, 2, 3, 4;
PL on Kitty’s supposed neglect of, 1;
considers going into a home, 1;
breakfasts, 1;
PL asked to look after while Hewetts on holiday, 1;
PL rows with on phone, 1;
PL visits, 1;
holiday in King’s Lynn with PL, 1;
dizzy spells confine to bed, 1, 2;
in hospital with chipped hip, 1;
and PL’s fiftieth birthday, 1;
goes into nursing home, 1;
other mentions, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
Larkin, Kitty (PL’s sister) see Hewett, Kitty
Larkin, Philip (PL)
– CHARACTER AND VIEWS: on ageing, 1;
on animals, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
on birds, 1;
on his character, 1, 2;
on conflict, 1;
on death, 1;
on his family, 1;
feelings as outsider, 1;
on happiness, 1;
on librarians, 1;
on love, marriage and commitment, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10;
on noise, 1;
on own intelligence, 1;
on parents’ influence, 1;
on the past, 1, 2, 3;
and pessimism, 1;
and politics, 1, 2, 3, 4;
on private papers and diaries, 1;
on religion, 1, 2;
on sex, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
on social life, 1, 2;
on solitude, 1, 2, 3, 4;
on time passing, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
on work, 1, 2, 3, 4
– GENERAL: as cook, 1, 2, 3;
diaries, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
and drink, 1, 2, 3;
and housework, 1;
knowledge of French, 1;
literary tastes, 1, 2, 3;
qualities as librarian, 1;
relationship with MJ, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15n, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30;
relationship with mother, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
– LIFE: background, 1;
time at Oxford, 1;
father’s death, 1;
moves to Ireland to be Sub-Librarian at Queen’s University, Belfast, 1;
dental problems, 1, 2;
engagement to Bowman, 1, 2, 3;
hay fever, 1, 2;
moves to College Park East, 1;
library tour, 1;
moves to Elmwood Avenue, 1, 2;
more dental problems, 1;
holiday in Lake District with MJ, 1;
reaction to MJ’s pregnancy fears, 1;
holiday in Warwick with MJ, 1;
first radio broadcasts, 1, 2;
holiday in Scotland with MJ, 1;
holiday in Weymouth with mother, 1n, 2;
leg inflammation, 1;
applies for Librarianship of Hull, 1, 2, 3, 4;
appointed, 1, 2;
work on new library building, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11;
holiday in York with MJ, 1, 2;
unhappiness with Outlands Road lodgings, 1, 2;
moves to 1 Hallgate, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;
Murphy broadcast draws on his work, 1, 2;
holiday on Sark with MJ, 1, 2;
New Poetry broadcast, 1, 2;
moves to 1A Hallgate, 2n;
moves to Pearson Park, 1, 2n;
love-making with MJ, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
British Council recording, 1n;
holiday in Devon with MJ, 1;
records LD, 1, 2;
offered visiting lectureship at Cincinnati, 1;
loneliness at Hull, 1, 2;
applies for Librarianship at Reading, then changes mind, 1;
MJ encourages to make will, 1, 2;
holiday on Sark with MJ, 1, 2, 3;
noise problems at Pearson Park, 1;
visits Lincoln with MJ, 1;
collapse and hospitalisation because of late onset epilepsy, 1, 2, 3;
holiday in Bournemouth with mother, 1;
turns down lecturing at University of Connecticut, 1;
passes driving test and buys first car, 1;
affair with Brennan, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
Monitor film about, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
scheme to acquire writers’ MSS for national collection, 1;
BBC radio programme about poems, 1;
Arts Council prize, 1;
Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, 1n;
weight worries, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
at librarians’ conference in Dublin, 1;
leave of absence at All Souls Oxford, 1n, 2, 3;
holiday in King’s Lynn with mother, 1;
BBC broadcast for fiftieth
birthday, 1, 2, 3;
takes in MJ to care for her, 1
– AS WRITER: on achievements as writer, 1;
attitude to own poems, 1, 2;
on difficulties of writing, 1, 2;
on effects that can be achieved in poetry, 1;
frustrations about writing and how to lead a writer’s life, 1, 2, 3;
on inspiration, 1;
on need for falsity in poetry, 1;
parody of own poetry, 1;
on the poetic impulse, 1;
poetry notebooks, 1;
preferred poetry writing materials, 1n;
on problem of writing about his feelings, 1;
on reading poetry aloud, 1;
on symbolism, 1;
on types of narrative style, 1;
on why writing is important, 1;
writer’s block, 1
Larkin, Sydney (PL’s father): first job, 1;
love of TH, 1, 2;;
courtship with wife, 1;
retirement, 1;
PL’s feelings about last illness, 1, 2;
death, 1;
in PL’s poetry, 1;
other mentions, 1
‘Larkin at Fifty’ (radio programme), 1, 2, 3, 4
Larkin at Sixty, 1, 2
Laski, Marghanita, 1, 2, 3, 4
‘Latest Face’, 1, 2, 3
Lawrence, D. H.: PL on his life and dislike for Galsworthy, 1;
PL on difficulty of looking at him objectively, 1;
PL on his lifestyle and character, 1, 2, 3;
compared to Forster, 1;
PL on his characters, 1;
PL wishes could write like, 1;
life compared to Wilde’s, 1;
MJ on, 1n, 2n;
use of clichés, 1;
on KM, 1;
PL holds Lady Chatterley exhibition at Hull University Library, 1;
naked wrestling, 1;
other mentions, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
– WORKS: Kangaroo, 1;
Lady Chatterley’s Lover, 1, 2, 3, 4n;
Movements in European History, 1;
The Plumed Serpent, 1;
St Mawr, 1;
Sons and Lovers, 1;
A Study of Hardy, 1n
Lawrence, Frieda, 1
Lawrence, T. E., 1
Lawrence, Thomas, 1
Laxton, 1
Leach, Alfreda, 1, 2
Leary, Paris, 1, 2n
Leavis, F. R., 1, 2, 3
Leeds, 1
Lehmann, John, 1
Leicester University College, 1, 2, 3
Leishman, J. B., 1, 2n
Leopardi, Giacomo, 1
Lerner, Laurence, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
The Less Deceived: contents, 1, 2n, 3, 4, 5;
dedication, 1, 2;
jacket blurb, 1;
PL’s contract, 1, 2;
PL’s special copy, 1;
publication preparations, 1, 2, 3;
published, 1, 2;
reception, 1, 2, 3, 4n;
recording, 1, 2;
sales, 1, 2, 3, 4;
subscribers, 1, 2, 3;
title, 1, 2, 3
Lewis, C. Day: becomes Compton Poetry Lecturer at Hull, 1, 2n;
and Poet Laureateship, 1;
PL on poetry, 1;
Elizabeth Jane Howard on, 1;
last illness, 1;
memorial service, 1
Lewis, C. S., 1n, 2
Lewis, George, 1
Lewis, Wyndham, 1
Lichfi eld, 1, 2
Lincoln, 1
‘Lines on a Young Lady’s Photograph Album’, 1, 2
Lisburn, 1
Listen (journal): establishment, 1, 2;
PL poems in, 1n, 2, 3, 4;
PL on, 1, 2, 3;
PL reviews in, 1n
Listener (magazine), 1n, 2, 3, 4, 5
Liverpool City Art Gallery, 1, 2
The Living Poet: Philip Larkin (radio programme), 1
‘Livings’, 1, 2, 3n
London Magazine, 1n, 2, 3, 4n, 5
Long, Sir Edwin, 1
‘Long Last’, 1
‘Long roots moor summer’, 1
Longley, Michael, 1
Loughborough, 1
‘Love Songs in Age’, 1n
Lowell, Robert, 1, 2
Ludlow, 1, 2
Luttrell, Mrs (Leicester), 1
Luttrell, Claude, 1n, 2
Lyttelton, Humphrey, 1
McAuley, Robie, 1; The Disguises of Love, 2
MacBeth, George, 1n, 2
MacCaig, Norman, 1
McCarthy, Mary: and MJ, 1;
compared to Jarrell, 1, 2, 3n,
KA meets, 1
– WORKS: Birds of America, 1;
A Charmed Life, 1;
The Groves of Academe, 1, 2n, 3, 4n, 5, 6;
A Source of Embarrassment, 1, 2n, 3, 4
McCrae, John, 1n
Mackereth, Betty, 1;
engagement broken off, 1;
visits PL in hospital, 1;
holidays, 1;
shreds PL’s diaries, 1;
other mentions, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Maclaren-Ross, J., (reviewer), 1
McLean, Donald, 1
MacNeice, Louis, 1, 2
Madge, Charles, 1n;
visits PL, 1, 2;
PL visits, 1;
sends PL Christmas card, 1;
friends, 1;
subscribes to LD, 1;
other mentions, 1
Mahon, Derek, 1
‘Maiden Name’, 1, 2
Mallarmé, Stéphane, 1, 2n
Manchester Guardian, 1, 2, 3, 4n
Mann, Sargy, 1n, 2, 3
Mann, Thomas, 1
Mansfi eld, Katherine: compared to Woolf, 1;
PL on her letters, 1, 2;
PL sends her letters to MJ, 1;
reviewed in New Statesman, 1;
MJ on, 1n, 2n;
on other people’s suffering, 1;
on Dorothy Wordsworth, 1;
compared to Burnett, 1, 2;
PL on her journal, 1, 2;
other mentions, 1, 2
‘The March Past’, 1n, 2n
Mare, Walter de la, 1, 2, 3, 4
Margaret, Princess, 1
Marlot, H. V., 1
Marsh, Eddie, 1
Martin, John, 1
Martin, Leslie, 1, 2
Marvell Press, 1;
see also Hartley, George;
Hartley, Jean
Masefi eld, John, 1, 2
Maudling, Reginald, 1
Maugham, W. Somerset, 1
Mavericks (anthology), 1, 2, 3
‘The Meeting House’ see ‘The Building’
Mellor, Oscar, 1n
Melton Mowbray, 1
Melville, Herman, 1
Menuhin, Yehudi, 1
Merwin, W. S., 1, 2
Metcalf, John, 1
Michie, James, 1n
