Philip Larkin

GPTKB entity

Properties (41)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:Poet
Librarian
Novelist
gptkbp:almaMater gptkb:University_of_Oxford
gptkbp:associatedAct The Movement
British_Poetry
gptkbp:awards Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
gptkbp:birthDate 1922-08-09
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Coventry,_England
gptkbp:deathDate 1985-12-02
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:Humberstone_Road_Cemetery
gptkbp:famousQuote “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
“Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.”
“We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it.”
“The mind is a place and it can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
“Life is slow dying.”
“They fuck you up, your mum and dad.”
“What will survive of us is love.”
“I am not a poet, I am a poet's poet.”
“I want to be a poet, not a poet's poet.”
“I think the best thing is to be honest.”
gptkbp:genre Fiction
Poetry
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Philip Larkin
gptkbp:influenced Contemporary poets
Post-war_British_literature
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:T.S._Eliot
gptkb:Thomas_Hardy
gptkb:W.H._Auden
gptkbp:knownFor Realism
Social commentary
Exploration of everyday life
gptkbp:language English
gptkbp:nationality British
gptkbp:notableWork High Windows
The Less Deceived
The Whitsun Weddings
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:Poet
Librarian
Writer
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Monica_Jones