The Hermit of Hull, tersely guarding his word-hoard, has become, through no fault of his own, a spendthrift, a chatterbox, a squandermaniac. What next - the collected library memos? A bibliography of the betting slips and off-licence receipts? An anthology of extracts from his favourite porn mags?
Mar 26, 2005
From reticence to logorrhea
Blake Morrison reviews AT Tolley's Phillip Larkin: Early Poems and Juvenilia and finds little to love there.
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