He had so far no qualifications for librarianship beyond his degree in English literature, and left to himself he might well have continued to live at home with his parents and work on his novel...
Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus, 2002.
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Reception
Philip Larkin
PL
declined the poet laureateship, which was offered him after John Betjeman
died (on 19 May 1984), on the grounds that he was no longer a practising poet. His many honorary doctorates included those with...