Saturday, November 29, 2014

A fair biography …

… Book Review: ‘Philip Larkin’ by James Booth - WSJ. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Mr. Booth is wise enough to distinguish between indiscretions in letters to friends and actions in the world. He also has the sense of humor required of anyone who writes about Larkin and which is so evidently missing in Andrew Motion. James Booth’s biography reveals a Philip Larkin more complex, three-dimensional and subtler in every way than Andrew Motion ever dreamed possible.

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