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    Life’s Dull: A Letter from Philip Larkin to Kingsley Amis

    by Philip Larkin Aug 09, 2017 1 minute

    From left: Anthony Powell, Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, and Hilary Amis.

    From a 1979 letter from Philip Larkin to Kingsley Amis. Larkin, who was born on this day in 1922, and Amis enjoyed a long friendship. In their and spoke about their working relationship; the two shared unpublished writing with each other. In Amis’s case, Larkin provided “very constructive suggestions” on the “feeble” first draft of his novel Lucky Jim

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