{"id":402,"date":"2010-10-03T20:13:04","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T20:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/?p=402"},"modified":"2010-10-03T20:14:25","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T20:14:25","slug":"letters-pray-more-larkin-correspondence-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/2010\/10\/03\/letters-pray-more-larkin-correspondence-published\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters, pray: more Larkin correspondence published"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-298\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;margin-right: 5px;border: white 5px solid\" title=\"larkin\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/files\/2010\/07\/larkin-150x150.gif\" alt=\"Philip Larkin\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>For over forty years, Philip Larkin wrote to Monica Jones, the woman who shared his life.\u00a0As Anthony Thwaite, Larkin&#8217;s literary executor and friend, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/books\/philip-larkin\/8037257\/Philip-Larkin-letters-to-Monica-Dearest-bun-I-didnt-want-to-hurt-you....html\" target=\"_blank\">revealed in The Telegraph\u00a0this weekend<\/a>, letters and postcards the two exchanged have now been published for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Fantastic news for those who enjoyed\u00a0Larkin&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Selected-Letters-Philip-Larkin-1940-85\/dp\/0571151973\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Selected Letters<\/em><\/a>\u00a0published by Faber in 1993, and who read the replies to Larkin by his friend and fellow literary giant, Kingsley Amis when HarperCollins published a vast tome of Amis&#8217; vibrant correspondence in 2001, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Letters-Kingsley-Amis\/dp\/0006387837\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Letters of Kingsley Amis<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Notoriously reclusive, shunning travel and avoiding the limelight, not much of Larkin, other than the few slim volumes of poetry he published, reaches the public eye; at his request, Monica Jones destroyed Larkin&#8217;s journals when he died.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the letters are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/books\/philip-larkin\/\" target=\"_blank\">published in The Telegraph here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For over forty years, Philip Larkin wrote to Monica Jones, the woman who shared his life.\u00a0As Anthony Thwaite, Larkin&#8217;s literary executor and friend, revealed in The Telegraph\u00a0this weekend, letters and postcards the two exchanged have now been published for the first time. Fantastic news for those who enjoyed\u00a0Larkin&#8217;s Selected Letters\u00a0published by Faber in 1993, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/2010\/10\/03\/letters-pray-more-larkin-correspondence-published\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Letters, pray: more Larkin correspondence published&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":620,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1201,1225],"tags":[1227],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}