Anthony Thwaite, 'Introduction', Larkin at Sixty (London, 1982), p. 11.
2.
George Hartley, 'New absence', from George Hartley, Philip Larkin 1922-1985 A Tribute (London, 1988), p.7.
3.
Alan Gardiner, 'Larkin's England', from Linda Cookson and Bryan Loughrey, Critical Essays on Philip Larkin: the poems (London, 1988), p.62.
4.
John Bayley, 'Philip Larkin's inner world', from Dale Salwak, Philip Larkin: the man and his work (London, 1989), p.161.
5.
Andrew Motion, Larkin (London, 1982), p.20.
6.
Stephen Regan, Philip Larkin (London, 1992), p.142. This otherwise excellent discussion of Larkin is marred by its perverse attempt to enlist him in an anti-Thatcherite Popular Front!
7.
Janice Rossen, Philip Larkin (London, 1989), p.49. This volume contains an excellent discussion of 'Larkin's fury against women', pp.66-91.
8.
Noel Hughes , 'An innocent at home', in Dale Salwak, op. cit., p.56.
9.
The best account of the Movement is Blake Morrison, The Movement (London, 1980), but see also Alan Sinfield's excellent Literature, Politics and Culture in PostWar Britain (Oxford, 1989). With regard to its members' shift to the Right, Amis went from halfheartedly voting Labour to calling for British troops to be sent to Vietnam, and ended up having dreams about Margaret Thatcher!
10.
Jean Hartley, Philip Larkin, the Marvell Press and Me (Manchester, 1989), pp.155-6.
11.
Robert Conquest, 'A proper sport', in Anthony Thwaite , op. cit., pp.36, 37.
12.
For the student revolt and the Black Papers, see Brian Simon, Education and the Social Order 1940-1990 (London, 1991), pp.390-401.
13.
Philip Larkin , All What Jazz (London, 1970), pp.13, 125-6, 213. As Frantz Fanon pointed out, part of the attraction of traditional jazz for white men like Larkin was that it was 'an expression of nigger-hood': The Wretched of the Earth (London, 1967), pp.195-6.
