Philip Arthur Larkin — a remark

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“The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”

Widely attributed to Larkin, but the precise source wording is difficult to verify · Essay / prose writing

About Philip Arthur Larkin

Philip Arthur Larkin

9 August 1922–2 December 1985

Philip Arthur Larkin (1922-1985) stands as one of the most significant English poets of the post-war era, a writer whose unflinching observations of ordinary life and masterful technical skill earned him a place among the finest poets of the 20th century. Often labeled as the "saddest heart in the post-war…

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