Alas! Deceived
Alan Bennett: Larkin the Librarian, 25 March 1993
Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life
by Andrew Motion.
Faber, 570 pp., £20, April 1993,0 571 15174 4 Show More
by Andrew Motion.
Faber, 570 pp., £20, April 1993,
“... also, was that it he had lived a more cluttered life then Art, ‘that lifted rough tongued bell’, would cease to chime. When it did cease to chime, rather earlier than he’d thought, ten years or so before he died, he went on living as he’d always lived, saying it was all he knew.Striding down the library in the Monitor film Larkin thought he ... ”