Philip Larkin and the Third Woman

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  • Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
  • Oh dear, my biographer Sir Andrew Motion discovers a poem I did for Betty Mackereth. I was hoping it would be kept private. Bum.

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  • @nobbynoris
    @nobbynoris 11 месяцев назад +2

    It's fascinating to see Jean Hartley on screen.
    She was the wife of his second publisher (The Less Deceived) and was a friend of Larkin's for 30 years. It seems to me she often gets left out of Larkin's story, perhaps because she wasn't one of his 'women'.
    She published an autobiography, Philip Larkin, The Marvell Press and Me, in 1989. It's an engaging read, very well written, by a working-class Northern girl who had to grasp the chances of education and self-improvement where she found them because she was born too early to benefit from the post-war expansion and democratisation of the universities. It has a great deal of insights regarding growing up in the real era of austerity, class, male chauvanism, and, of course, poetry and jazz.

  • @peterphoto7732
    @peterphoto7732 8 месяцев назад +1

    l'd like to know what happened
    to Mr Larkin's bike?

  • @HaFannyHa
    @HaFannyHa 2 года назад +3

    Thank you for uploading this! Fascinating and touching.

  • @tracythomas132
    @tracythomas132 2 года назад +4

    I knew a lady whom worked under Larkin at the Brynmor Jones Library. Never would talk about him in detail, so goodness knows what happened in those stack rooms.

    • @nobbynoris
      @nobbynoris 11 месяцев назад +1

      He certainly used the jam-jar glasses, receding chin, dour pessimism, low self-esteem and general misanthropy to good effect, didn't he? The randy old goat.
      I say this purely out of pure jealousy. Self certainly was the man.

  • @sockmonkey22
    @sockmonkey22 Год назад +3

    I await this video’s sequels, “The. Fourth Woman”, “The Fifth Woman”, etc.🥰

    • @esmeephillips5888
      @esmeephillips5888 Год назад

      Ruth Bowman and Patsy Strang. Winifred Arnott eluded him.

  • @nobbynoris
    @nobbynoris 11 месяцев назад +1

    So this lady was the loaf-haired secretary.

  • @_PoeticJustice_
    @_PoeticJustice_ 9 месяцев назад

    Please check out the following video for more content about Philip Larkin: ruclips.net/video/waMQYg8c8lM/видео.html

  • @simonpearce5039
    @simonpearce5039 2 года назад +2

    Larkin what a dark horse, still amazes us

  • @kaybeckett5582
    @kaybeckett5582 2 года назад +2

    Tomatoes on a Christmas tree. Thanks

    • @nobbynoris
      @nobbynoris 11 месяцев назад

      From what is gradually unfolding about Larkin, you might feel mildly surprised that it isn't two plums and a pig in a blanket.

  • @SuperBagshot
    @SuperBagshot Год назад +4

    Bloody jazz music is doing my head in

  • @HarpurheyPaul
    @HarpurheyPaul 6 месяцев назад

    It's none of our business : Motion was nothing more than an underpants sniffer.

  • @Andrea_fishbowl
    @Andrea_fishbowl Год назад +1

    Can you turn on the subtitles, please?

    • @philiplarkin1625
      @philiplarkin1625  Год назад

      There are no foreign subtitles to fit to this sorry.

    • @QHarefield
      @QHarefield Год назад

      @@philiplarkin1625 How about some English ones, then?

    • @philiplarkin1625
      @philiplarkin1625  Год назад +1

      @@QHarefield I'm sorry but I don't have the file to add on the subtitles.

    • @QHarefield
      @QHarefield Год назад

      @@philiplarkin1625 No worries. Thank you.

    • @jonharrison9222
      @jonharrison9222 10 месяцев назад

      Don’t be lazy.