· These are a very welcome addition to the successful volume Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, and they seem to cry out for a future collection in which Larkin’s letters are placed alongside those written in reply by Monica Jones. But we will have to be very patient: her correspondence is locked in the Bodleian Library for the next twenty www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 8 mins. There are two useful appendices, an index, and reproductions of some of the cartoons with which Larkin decorated some of his letters (Monica appearing as a rabbit and Philip as a seal). The themes of Larkin's letters include the burden of work; fears of commitment, including fear of marriage; jazz; cricket; sex; Larkin's strained relationship with his mother; his own poetry as well as poetry in general; and Cited by: 1. She was opinionated and outspoken, widely disliked by his friends and Philip himself was routinely unfaithful to her. But Monica Jones was also a brilliant academic and an inspiring teacher in her own right. She wrote more than 2, letters to Larkin, and he in turn poured out his heart to her.
Monica Jones photographed by Philip Larkin on the Isle of Mull, Scotland, Photograph: Philip Larkin archive. Horror mounting at their incontinent bulk, he pokes at them as if with a stick. Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica Edited by Anthony Thwaite (Faber Faber, pp., $) I. A good place to start on the protagonists of this curious correspondence—culled from some 1, Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica. Philip Larkin met Monica Jones at University College Leicester in autumn , when they were both twenty-four; he was the newly-appointed assistant librarian and she was an English lecturer. In Larkin moved to Belfast, and thence to Hull, while Monica remained in Leicester, becoming by turns his.
She was opinionated and outspoken, widely disliked by his friends and Philip himself was routinely unfaithful to her. But Monica Jones was also a brilliant academic and an inspiring teacher in her own right. She wrote more than 2, letters to Larkin, and he in turn poured out his heart to her. Letters to Monica by Philip Larkin – review Love, in other words Nicholas Lezard. Thu 4 Aug EDT First published on Thu 4 Aug EDT. Share on Facebook;. These are a very welcome addition to the successful volume Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, and they seem to cry out for a future collection in which Larkin’s letters are placed alongside those written in reply by Monica Jones. But we will have to be very patient: her correspondence is locked in the Bodleian Library for the next twenty years.
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