Philip Larkin

James Booth reads Philip Larkin''s mature poetry in terms of his ambiguous self-image as lonely, anti-social outsider, plighted to his art, and as nine-to-five librarian, sharing the common plight of humanity. Booth''s focus is on Larkin''s artistry with words, the ''verbal devices'' through which this purest of lyric poets celebrates ''the experience. The beauty.'' Featuring discussion for the fi...