august december english poet novelist librarian book poetry published followed novels girl winter came prominence publication second collection poems followed high windows contributed daily_telegraph jazz critic articles gathered jazz record diary edited oxford book twentieth century english verse honours include queen gold medal poetry offered declined position following death sir graduating oxford english language literature librarian thirty years worked distinction university librarian jones library produced greater published work poems marked calls english accuracy emotions places relationships described lowered sights diminished expectations echoing called heart post war supermarket said influenced poems highly structured flexible verse forms described wife publisher mixture discontent writes work reputation suggests public persona nonsense solitary englishman disliked fame patience public literary life posthumous publication letters triggered controversy personal life political views described hair raising places hilarious called casual racist easy academic argued worst discovered letters taste porn softer passes mainstream entertainment despite controversy chosen poetry book society survey decades death britain best loved poet previous years times named britain greatest post war writer reviewer referred years death adopted home city kingston hull commemorated festival culminated unveiling statue december 25th anniversary death life early life education born august son younger child came wife emily day family lived district years old moving large storey middle class house complete servants quarters near railway station manor road having survived bombings second world war house manor road demolished 1960s way road programme construction inner ring road sister catherine known years older father self man risen singular individual disillusioned middle age combined love literature enthusiasm attended rallies mid- introduced son works lawrence mother nervous passive woman kind mechanism ideal collapse taken care dominated husband early childhood respects unusual educated home age mother sister friends relatives visited family home developed nonetheless joined fitted immediately close long standing friendships hughes home life relatively cold enjoyed support parents example deep passion jazz supported purchase drum kit saxophone supplemented subscription beat junior school progressed king henry viii senior school fared poorly sat exam age despite results allowed stay school years later earned english history passed entrance exams oxford read english began oxford_university october year outbreak second world war old upper class traditions university life time faded male students studying highly truncated degrees poor failed military medical examination able study usual years partner met encouraged taste ridicule remained close friend life university friends formed group dubbed seven meeting discuss poetry listen jazz drink enthusiastically time real social interaction opposite sex romantic sat finals having dedicated time writing greatly surprised awarded class honours degree early career relationships appointed librarian public library wellington working early met girlfriend academically ambitious year old went continue studies king college london visits friendship developed sexual relationship june halfway qualifying membership appointed assistant librarian leicester visiting leicester witnessing university senior common room gave inspiration write novel famous long gestation contributed considerably weeks father death cancer march proposed summer couple spent annual holiday touring hardy country june appointed sub librarian post took september departure split stage appointment position queen end engagement friendship lecturer english leicester developed sexual relationship spent years belfast appear life relationship jones developed erotic affair life time open marriage colleagues stage offered leave husband marry onwards jones locations british isles belfast significant sexually undeveloped friendship subject lines young lady came end married period gave extensive advice writing debt finished book university librarian post held death professor chairman library committee appointed friend death wrote impressed time spent office arriving early leaving late later realised office study spent hours private writing work library return home good evenings start writing year lodged age rented self contained flat floor storey red brick house overlooking park previously point later commemorated poem high windows city commented thought hull having got suits ways little edge things think natives like edge things doesn design know jobs know lived places post war years underwent significant expansion typical british universities period took appointment plans new university library far advanced great effort months placed suggested number major structural adopted built stages named jones library university vice chancellor colleagues hull said great figure post war british years new library completion records entire library stock making library europe install system automated online circulation system wrote excelled administrator committee man treated staff motivated said combination efficiency high standards humour compassion death secretary access colleagues came know life years library stock budget expanded real terms increase later life february friendship colleague romantic despite strong roman catholic beliefs early persuaded dance university staff despite preference smaller gatherings pivotal moment relationship longest unfinished poem dance time prompting learnt drive bought car singer parents died bought holiday cottage bridge near visited regularly poem saturday description valley wake publication subject episode arts programme monitor directed programme shows interviewed fellow poet series locations hull allowed play significant creation public persona prefer readers imagine offered declined later life accepted offer companion honour role creation new jones library important demanding soon completion second larger phase construction able energies october started work compiling new anthology oxford book twentieth century english verse awarded visiting fellowship souls college oxford academic terms allowing consult oxford copyright library major contributor evaluation poetry comparison novels overlooked controversial anthology hardy poet represented seven poems hardy compared famous long poems poets extensively represented included poems number process compiling volume disappointed find better poems evidence voices favourable responses anthology hostile accused positive encouraging triumph cult amateur weakest kind initial period anxiety anthology reception enjoyed regained contact led life subsequent correspondence gained notoriety letters particularly frank political personal opinions expressing right wing views racist language period honorary fellow oxford awarded honorary degrees sussex universities january informed going dispose building lived shortly bought detached storey 1950s house described university colleague entirely middle class moved house june thought bedroom property utterly reflected kind dwelling nobility human spirit shortly splitting august attended memorial service christ church oxford official partner march relationship restarted weeks initiated secret affair served secretary years writing long poem met end party despite logistical difficulties having relationships simultaneously situation continued march jones couple december 25th anniversary death bbc broadcast programme entitled woman focusing affair spoke time relationship included reading newly discovered secret poem dear jake revealed inspirations writings final years death turned marked significantly collection essays entitled edited published television programmes episode presented camera contributions half hour special bbc devised presented labour shadow cabinet minister jones hospitalised severity symptoms including effects eyes distressed health declined regular care necessary month moved home remained rest life memorial service died july asked accept post poet declined felt long ceased writer poetry meaningful sense following year began suffer cancer june underwent surgery cancer found spread november collapsed hospital died days later december age buried municipal cemetery near hull grave found left hand cemetery close entrance plain white reads philip writer asked deathbed diaries destroyed request granted jones main diaries page page burned found contradictory private papers unpublished work legal advice left issue discretion literary decided material destroyed died february jones turn left million pounds cathedral creative output early works mid teens wrote producing poetry initially modelled fiction wrote length novels destroyed shortly completion oxford_university poem published time ultimatum listener time developed alter ego prose wrote trouble willow supposed autobiography equally fictitious creative manifesto called writing written curious works registers cautious indifference symbolism hint lawrence prose appears disclose writer feelings sexual excitement works started published novel published publisher barely legal pornography issued fiction cover core activities time prepared publication wrote poetry resulted publication months collection poems written showed increasing influence immediately completing started work novel girl winter completing published received sunday_times calling exquisite performance nearly subsequently attempts writing novel went solid start mature works years belfast reached maturity poet bulk published collection poems written poems included late 1940s period saw final attempts writing prose fiction gave extensive help published novel october article spectator use title movement describe dominant trend british post war literature poems included pen anthology included poems seen grouping compiled collection called privately printed run copies poems subsequently appeared published volume november published independent company near hull dated october volume attracted little attention december included times list books year point book reputation spread sales years hull pressures work slowed output average half poems year period saw writing best known poems tomb weddings reissued addition long introduction included information time oxford_university friendship acted prelude release following year volume cemented reputation immediately publication granted fellowship years followed wrote famous poems followed 1970s series longer sober poems including building old appeared final collection high windows published june direct use language meant meet uniform praise nonetheless sold thousand copies year critics represents falling previous books contains number loved pieces including verse explosion title poem year wonder volume contains frequently quoted observation sexual intercourse began narrator claims late despite having started sexual career prompted comments memoir suggests poem commemorates relationship moving romantic sexual later started work final major published poem completed published december issue wrote poem attracted close critical attention posthumously published intensely personal love poetic style poetry characterized combining ordinary style clarity quiet reflective tone ironic direct engagement commonplace experiences summed style mixture discontent earliest work showed influence development mature poetic identity early 1950s coincided growing influence mature style evident detached tender observer phrase looks ordinary people ordinary things poems relied shared classical literary allusions called myth poems elaborate imagery mature poetic persona notable features mature work sudden openings highly structured flexible verse forms argued poems nature heavily lyrics subsequent development mature style movement hardy surrounding moment metaphor frame view poetry revolves losses loss desire find moment loss england loss british_empire requires england define terms previously define opposition wrote quoted going going poem expresses romantic view england typical later years complete destruction countryside expresses sense national identity england gone galleries remains concrete tyres poem ends blunt statement think happen soon style bound recurring themes subjects include death final major poem poet andrew motion observes poems rage contempt checked energy language articulate formal control contrasts aspects poetic personality hand enthusiasm moments freely imaginative narratives language motion defines life enhancing struggle concludes poetry typically ambivalent mature collections developed attitudes styles imaginative daring prolonged debates despair testify wide sympathies contain passages frequently beauty demonstrate poetic immense consequence literary heirs prose non fiction notable critic contemporary art literature nuanced collection book reviews essays introduction collected jazz reviews jazz drawn record review columns wrote daily_telegraph contains attack modern jazz widens wholesale critique arts despite reputation acquired enemy recent critical assessments writings identified possessing modernist characteristics legacy reception history published north ship received review evening telegraph concluded inner vision sought care imagery phrases kind hinted beauty lack readers present confined small circle work gain wider appeal genius mature years later poet critic came book wrote collection reissued presented work reviews gentle respectful praise came spectator question value importance reprinted good know write young noticed times included wake reviews followed concentrated book emotional impact sophisticated witty language spectator felt collection running best published country war referring perceived association movement felt exemplified good new movement faults called poet exceptional importance june native sharp expression contemporary thought experience written time immediate appeal lyric poetry earlier day regarded poetic monument marks triumph years poetry way public reviewing book america poet wrote post war poetry caught moment caught hesitant experienced perfect artistic methods time counter reaction wrote encounter suffered playing safe april wrote piece journal essays criticism muse attacking movement poets middle cum suburban mental ratio sense defeat anthology entitled famously accused neo georgian failure deal violent extremes contemporary life released continued attacks review observer complaining commonplace subject matter praise criticism felt closed gap poetry public experiments obscurity years widen wrote self consciousness usually flawless execution world place end find happiness felt best poet england biography writes reviews high windows showed genuine admiration notes typically encountered problems describing individual genius work poems explosion building explaining radically different times overcame problem treating differences ineffective masks consistently nasty presence portraits friends colleagues poems strands output analysed critics fellow poets looked poems wrote novels james looked jazz criticism critical opinion write probably fair highly regarded academic circles recently standing increased excellent example plain style modern times writes asserts general consent work taken widely celebrated arguably finest poet movement states poetry reputation anecdotes disappointed middle class suggests philip subversive writer ideology critical violence suggest changing temper studies attacking eminent critics readiness reduce poems works biography stressing instead genius cooper argues signs motifs early work conventional attitudes class gender authority sexual relations cooper identifies progressive writer letters plea alternative social political organisation cooper draws entire canon works unpublished correspondence counter image merely racist instead identifies calls subversive imagination highlights particular objections conventional sexual politics lives sexes equal measure similar vein cooper notes essay entitled philip late modern poet frequently devices associated experimental practices linguistic self conscious radical self questioning sudden shifts voice register complex viewpoints perspectives intensity indication new direction critical statement longer institution modern british national cultural monument view grounded detailed analysis poetic style notes development early works later ones sees style change verbal recognition self self language linguistic domain conventionally held conceptual traditional relatives found block artist aspiring rise contrasts older view style barely changed course poetic career identifies view comment poetry develop poetry responds strongly changing economic socio political literary cultural factors argues poetry positive vision life hidden suggests apparent later works course poetic career notable development lay zone view life bleak positive passage time view actually displays optimism works certainly universally endorsed lengthy study suggests degree old stereotypes representative stereotypes judgement quoted writers adopted personal pose extreme world grinding focus man recent criticism demonstrates complex set values work poetry writings debate summed observes discussing man actually reading coded implicit discussion supposed values held represent changing attitudes reflected changing attitudes sustained intellectual interest english national character embodied works instance key reason increased scholarly interest view similar johnson argues ways work depends develops furthermore demonstrates slippery word english despite recent developments circle nonetheless firmly rejected modernist critics poets example poet writing movement website notes wide consensus bad thing movement poems tedious shallow emotionally dead etc successors mainstream retain characteristics book shows terrific magazines 50s openings rigid conservative poetry people determined exclude key player reaction movement poets criticised narrow position movement denial ethics poetry onwards favour life like thought second representing life knew perfectly life like nominated went posthumous reputation posthumous reputation deeply affected publication edition letters following year official biography writer life revealed obsession pornography racism increasing shift political right wing expressions venom publication books wrote informed means ordinary commonplace acceptable poetic language spelled letters motion biography assessments kind comment guardian poetry carries baggage attitudes explicit hand revelations dismissed novelist war cliché arguing letters particular tendency tailor words according recipient similar argument biography commenting letters states collection went way restoration image reveal ing sinister black hearted near thought abuse 90s trying resolve contradictory opinions race book deliberate art philip writer quotes letter wrote post motion post letters racism nonsense american negro trying step forward compared ending slavery nineteenth century despite dogs advances giving negro civil rights young man advances continue end negro housed educated medically cared white man reviewing book wonders qualify thought true racist find state nation terrifying years time shall beds blacks steal lay hands don cricket test matches fucking despite controversy personal life opinions remains britain popular poets decades death chosen nation best loved poet survey times named greatest british post war writer poems verse weddings tomb featured nation poems voted viewers bbc media interest increased century collection available poetry texts english literature level high windows offered board buses hull displayed extracts poems recordings published listen presents reading listen record poems order appear printed volume followed reads comments listen record label printed volume published poems read order appear printed volume including introductory remarks poems recording reading poems final collection high windows published british poets time high windows poems read author edited record label previous recordings poems printed volume appears audio poetry 20th century english poetry iii issued featuring tomb recording issued united_states record label anthology 20th century english poetry iii poet speaks record issued featuring wants coming said days son record issued featuring days wedding wind weddings poems issued poetry cassette featuring reading poems including time recording despite fact audio recordings studio conditions mature collections separate recordings groups poems number audio gained reputation poet reluctant recordings read work express dislike sound voice come leicester birmingham know comes evidence indicates influenced preference public readings work willingness audio recordings poems invited washington record selection poems range poetic output publication cassette tape recording february expense sound engineer colleague negotiations publishers collapsed recording reading poems selected canonical volumes poetry sold copy recording uncovered garage studio engineer recording subsequently copy recording found news newly discovered recording headlines extracts broadcast report programme examining discovery depth tapes broadcast march recordings issued january sunday sessions contrast number audio recordings reading work appearances television programme agreed filmed taking bbc monitor series interviewed filming took place hull filming showed natural surroundings flat jones library visiting churches film recently broadcast bbc group poets surprised seventy fifth birthday turning gifts scene filmed later featured episode series celebrations birthday subject declined invitation appear programme recorded audio tape lot poems specifically commented introduction programme poet given cooperation programme broadcast featured contributions bennett filmed reading poems years later edition poetry motion broadcast channel_4 fiction based life davies starred play women stephen joseph theatre reprising role london play published usual publishers set decades arrival hull explores long relationships inspired entertainment devised starring sir given pre production performance afternoon saturday june hall performed man play pretending november year debuted play west yorkshire later transferring production comedy theatre london west end audio recording play based letters interviews diaries verse released june returned performance newly revised version pretending called aid statue appeal festival july bbc broadcast play entitled love title personal poems dealing thirty years life shot near hull lead role played year channel_4 broadcast documentary love death hull april broadcast play entitled awkward day practical joke played friend fellow poet charitable organization dedicated preserving memory works philip formed tenth anniversary death achieved charity status united_kingdom literary society president current society chairman society carries activities lectures hosted art festival june december commemorate 25th anniversary death memorials memorials kingston hull worked wrote poetry building housing teaching facilities lecture rooms hosts regular programme literary events city marked 25th anniversary death festival video commissioned illustrate poem hymn hull east riding yorkshire decorated sculptures entitled displayed city tribute poem july larger life size bronze statue sculptor unveiled december closing events inscribed late getting away poem funding statue designed raised charity events support unveiling accompanied fanfare composed occasion plaques containing poems added floor near statue december memorial bench installed pillar near statue june announced honoured floor stone memorial poets corner memorial unveiled december 31st anniversary death list works poetry isbn privately printed isbn church going maiden born yesterday written birth lines young lady album weddings isbn weddings tomb study reading habits home sad high windows isbn verse explosion building high windows anthony collected poems isbn published party politics published poem dance unfinished unpublished love unpublished anthony collected poems isbn weddings high windows published poems including isbn fiction isbn girl winter isbn trouble willow fiction isbn non fiction jazz record diary isbn required writing miscellaneous pieces isbn requirements interviews broadcasts statements book reviews isbn philip jones library lifted study jones library updated published isbn philip oxford book twentieth century english verse isbn anthony selected letters philip isbn anthony letters isbn
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