About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 58. Chapters: Philip Larkin, Alec Jeffreys, Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens, Brian J. Ford, Charles Thomas, Liam Donaldson, Norbert Elias, Jeffrey A. Hoffman, Harold Beeley, Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, John McManners, David Munrow, William George Hoskins, Paul G. Abel, Colin Eaborn, Keith Hill, Hans Kornberg, Richard Hoggart, Micha Heller, George Sutherland Fraser, Khurshid Ahmad, Ronald L. Meek, Michael Scholar, Mark Purnell, Brian Simon, Liu Zhiming, Robert Burgess, Charles Rees, Myra Shackley, Christopher Dyer, Walter Eric Spear, Clive Ruggles, Martin Harris, Norman Housley, John Goldthorpe, James Chapman, David Mattingly, John Brookfield, Michael Festing, Neil Christie, Richard Aldridge, Albrecht Frohlich, David Pollock, 3rd Viscount Hanworth, Richard Finn, Glenn White, Nicholas J. Cull, Roger Cotterrell, Gianni De Fraja, Keith Hopkins, Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Gerald Bernbaum, Ken Pounds, Malcolm Shaw, J. B. Schneewind, Harold James Dyos, Stephen Reno, Gabriel Dover, Trevor D. Ford, Simon James, Eric Dunning, Trevor Sheldon, Marta Kwiatkowska, Reuben Goodstein, Jackie Beere, Frances Ashcroft, Graeme Barker, Edward Parkes, Gilly Salmon, Richard Bonney, Martin Forward, Rosemary Sage, Leonard Huxley, Laurence Howard, Craig Jamieson, Clive A. Stace, John Coffey, Cosmo Graham, Alan Bryman, Nial Tanvir, Chris Willmott, Sami Zubaida. Excerpt: Philip Arthur Larkin, CH, CBE, FRSL (9 August 1922 - 2 December 1985) is widely regarded as one of the great English poets of the latter half of the twentieth century. His first book of poetry, The North Ship, was published in 1945, followed by two novels, Jill (1946) and A Girl in Winter (1947), but he came to prominence in 1955 with the publication of his second collection of poems, The Less Deceived, followed by The Whitsun Weddings (1964) and High Windows (1974). He contributed to ...