As a 63 year old scotsman who has lived all his life in Scotland I find larkin and his work and life very interesting.Also love the novels that depcted working class life of notherners in the sixties like Kes,saturday night sunday morning and the loliness of the long distance runner can all represent working class lifes of many scots in the 60s in similar areas.
An obsession with photography among writers had been more widespread than this documentary knows or thinks: major Dutch novelist Willem Frederik Hermans (1921-1995) and leading German novelist Arno Schmidt (1914-1979), both left sizable collections of photographs. It's a generational thing, I think.
I agree - a generational thing. And also a bit of a male thing too - and a class thing as well, to some extent. Men of that era liked new technical gadgets - reel-to-reel tape recorders, hi-fi equipment, cameras and other stuff. They'd pick up their salaried white collar cheques, save some - and then have a bit to spend as well. Often the research into makes and models would involve as much investment of time and effort as actually using the bloody thing once it was bought.
I have to say that his self-portraits are manifestly not ‘selfies’. I feel it does them a huge disservice to call them that as they are anything but ‘casual’ and also they are so far removed from the ‘share like and subscribe’ superficiality of everything that embodies the reverse camera lens images of social media. Call me a snob and a Luddite if you must, but in this case, the choice of words is surely of particular importance when presenting a documentary about them.
Thank you for this enjoyable progamme. I'm glad to see the BBC was dutiful to its charter in producing a documentary of this calibre on an unambiguously English poet loathed by the politically correct. Philip Larkin was commemorated in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey in 2016.
I'm always miffed that the last line of "An Arundel Tomb" is delivered, or placed, in such as way as to contradict its meaning. Far from asserting that, "What will survive of us is love", the poem makes it clear that such a reading of the tomb (and the poem itself) is a deceit - "Time has transfigured them into/Untruth..."
As a 63 year old scotsman who has lived all his life in Scotland I find larkin and his work and life very interesting.Also love the novels that depcted working class life of notherners in the sixties like Kes,saturday night sunday morning and the loliness of the long distance runner can all represent working class lifes of many scots in the 60s in similar areas.
As a photographer as well as a huge fan of Larkin's poetry, absolutely loved this video. Thank you.
excellent programme. thank you for posting this.
Perfection! Many thanks.
An obsession with photography among writers had been more widespread than this documentary knows or thinks: major Dutch novelist Willem Frederik Hermans (1921-1995) and leading German novelist Arno Schmidt (1914-1979), both left sizable collections of photographs. It's a generational thing, I think.
I agree - a generational thing. And also a bit of a male thing too - and a class thing as well, to some extent. Men of that era liked new technical gadgets - reel-to-reel tape recorders, hi-fi equipment, cameras and other stuff. They'd pick up their salaried white collar cheques, save some - and then have a bit to spend as well. Often the research into makes and models would involve as much investment of time and effort as actually using the bloody thing once it was bought.
Larkin had an eye for live even though his poetry is chiefly about getting old and death. A brilliant man I think in every right.
Wonderful report. A great poet. And an interesting photographer.
So well done. Thank you.
'A photograph is not a poem.'
But his poetry is full of photographic influences - the was crossover.
This was great. Thanks.
I have to say that his self-portraits are manifestly not ‘selfies’. I feel it does them a huge disservice to call them that as they are anything but ‘casual’ and also they are so far removed from the ‘share like and subscribe’ superficiality of everything that embodies the reverse camera lens images of social media.
Call me a snob and a Luddite if you must, but in this case, the choice of words is surely of particular importance when presenting a documentary about them.
Thanks for posting 👌
Thank you for this enjoyable progamme. I'm glad to see the BBC was dutiful to its charter in producing a documentary of this calibre on an unambiguously English poet loathed by the politically correct. Philip Larkin was commemorated in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey in 2016.
Well I didn’t know that...but lots of things fit together now - nice programme.
Allen Ginsberg was an excellent photographer....a book was published.
I didn't know larkin was a photographer 🎞️📸what an incredible discovery...
Most enjoyable, indeed....
excellent
Wonderful.
I'm always miffed that the last line of "An Arundel Tomb" is delivered, or placed, in such as way as to contradict its meaning. Far from asserting that, "What will survive of us is love", the poem makes it clear that such a reading of the tomb (and the poem itself) is a deceit - "Time has transfigured them into/Untruth..."
Is there a book where you can find these? Or perhaps a website?
He was ahead of his time .. always with an eye to the personal brand?
Will the collection be digitised, I wonder?
thanx, larkin makes a lot more sense
very nice
Please check out the following video for more content about Philip Larkin: ua-cam.com/video/waMQYg8c8lM/v-deo.html
What a microscopic, shabby lens it is.
y no queremos olvidar
ni que nos olviden
fotos
dias que vivimos
I wonder what happened to Monica? Shame some pple fear the unknown state of marriage.
Monica Jones clip on You Tube
ua-cam.com/video/3KQt15r0tc4/v-deo.html
Also ua-cam.com/video/tHIkTLiKNdU/v-deo.html
@@themise1416 thank you!
'The poem is tear-jerkingly tragic' No, it's not. It's casually sad, about a sad casualty of life. Get a hold of yourself man!
His taste in women was a bit ropey
It's not as though he was a Brad Pitt lookalike....?? But you think the women were ropey..?!?!
Very very grim.