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1022379 - Portrait by John Hedgecoe - Philip Larkin - taken at Hull University 1966 (where he was Librarian) - Philip Arthur Larkin (9 August 1922 - 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist and jazz critic. He spent his working life as a university librarian and was offered the Poet Laureateship following the death of John Betjeman, but declined the post. Larkin is commonly regarded as one of the greatest English poets of the latter half of the 20th century.
©2006 John Hedgecoe/TopFoto
©2006 John Hedgecoe/Topfoto
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