Ms. draft of poem 'Portrait' [CP309], Philip Larkin (1p/31), p.31 (1p.)

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Papers of Philip Arthur LarkinU DPL

Poetry workbooksU DPL/1

Workbook no. 1U DPL/1/1

Photograph of [WB Yeats] above a ts. of Yeats' poem 'The collar-bone of a hare' ('The wild swans at Coole')U DPL/1/1/1

Ms. quote "The living know that they shall die, but the dead know not anything"U DPL/1/1/2

Ms. draft of 'If grief could burn out' [CP298], Philip Larkin, p.1 (1p.)U DPL/1/1/3

Ms. draft of poem beginning 'Sheaves under the moon in ghostly fruitfulness', Philip Larkin, p.2 (1p.)U DPL/1/1/4

Ms. draft of poem 'The North Ship' ('Legend'), entitled 'Song: the three ships' [CP302], Philip Larkin, pp. 2a-3a (3pp.)U DPL/1/1/5

Ms. draft of poem entitled 'Letters', Philip Larkin, p.4 (1p.)U DPL/1/1/6

Ms. draft of first stanza of poem 'Within the dream you said' [CP299], Philip Larkin, p.4 (1p.)U DPL/1/1/7

Ms. draft of poem 'Night music' (entitled 'Night-piece') [CP300], Philip Larkin, pp.4-6 (5pp.)U DPL/1/1/8

Ms. notes and draft for poem 'The North Ship' ('Legend') [CP302], Philip Larkin, pp.6a-7 (2pp.)U DPL/1/1/9

Ms. drafts of poem beginning 'All my ambition is brought here to die', Philip Larkin, pp.7a-8 (2pp.)U DPL/1/1/10

Ms. drafts of poem 'Climbing the hill within the deafening wind' [CP301], Philip Larkin, pp.8a-10 (4pp.)U DPL/1/1/11

Ms. draft of poem beginning 'All my ambition is brought here to die', Philip Larkin, p.9 (1p.)U DPL/1/1/12

Ms. draft of poem 'The North Ship' [CP302], Philip Larkin, pp.10a-13 (6pp.)U DPL/1/1/13

Ms. draft of poem beginning 'Why should I be out walking', Philip Larkin, p.13a (1p.)U DPL/1/1/14

Ms. draft of poem beginning 'Because the images would not fit', Philip Larkin, p.14 (1p.)U DPL/1/1/15

Ms. draft of poem beginning 'Days like a handful of grey pearls', Philip Larkin, pp.14-15 (3pp.)U DPL/1/1/16

Ms. draft of poem beginning 'Numberless blades of grass', Philip Larkin, pp.15-15a (2pp.)U DPL/1/1/17

Ms. draft of poem entitled 'Beggars' beginning 'The [mangers] are all chaff', Philip Larkin, p.16 (1p.)U DPL/1/1/18

Ms. draft fragments of poetry, Philip Larkin, p.16a (1p.)U DPL/1/1/19

Ms. draft of poem beginning 'Draw close around you', Philip Larkin, pp.16a-17a (3pp.)U DPL/1/1/20

Ms. draft fragments of poetry, Philip Larkin, pp.17a-18 (2pp.)U DPL/1/1/21

Ms. draft of poem entitled 'Quatrain', beginning 'I have despatched so many words', Philip Larkin, p.18 (1p.)U DPL/1/1/22

Ms. draft of poem beginning 'Where was this silence learned', Philip Larkin, pp.18-18a (2pp.)U DPL/1/1/23

Ms. draft of poem 'Coming at last to night's most thankful springs' [CP306], Philip Larkin, pp.18a-19 (2pp.)U DPL/1/1/24

Ms. draft of poem beginning 'Ride with me down into the spring', Philip Larkin, pp.19-19a (2pp.)U DPL/1/1/25

Ms. draft of poem beginning 'Safely evening behind the window falls', Philip Larkin, p.23 (1p.)U DPL/1/1/26

Ms. draft of poem 'Plymouth' [CP307], Philip Larkin, p.23 (1p.)U DPL/1/1/27

Ms. draft of poem entitled 'Song with a spoken chorus', beginning 'Do not lie my love', Philip Larkin, p.23a (1p.)U DPL/1/1/28

Ms. draft of poem 'Plymouth' [CP307], Philip Larkin, p.24 (1p.)U DPL/1/1/29

Ms. draft of poem beginning 'Happiness is a flame', Philip Larkin, pp.24a-25 (2pp.)U DPL/1/1/30

Ms. draft of a poem beginning 'Lie with me, though the night returns outside', Philip Larkin, p.25a (1p.)U DPL/1/1/31

Ms. fragments of poetry, Philip Larkin, p.25a (1p.)U DPL/1/1/32

Ms. draft of poem beginning 'The dead are lost', Philip Larkin, pp.26-27 (3pp.)U DPL/1/1/33

Ms. draft of poem 'Lift through the breaking day' [CP308], Philip Larkin, pp.27a-28 (2pp.)U DPL/1/1/34

Ms. draft of poem beginning 'When the tide draws out', Philip Larkin, pp.28a-29 (2pp.)U DPL/1/1/35

Ms. draft of poem beginning 'I have given what you seemed to ask', Philip Larkin, p.29a (1p.)U DPL/1/1/36

Ms. draft of poem beginning 'Issued from night, the day was legendary', Philip Larkin, p.30 (1p.)U DPL/1/1/37

Ms. draft of poem beginning 'Morning is hindered by a mist', Philip Larkin, p.30a (1p.)U DPL/1/1/38

Ms. draft of poem 'Portrait' [CP309], Philip Larkin (1p/31), p.31 (1p.)U DPL/1/1/39

Ms. draft of poem 'Past days of gales' [CP310], Philip Larkin, pp.31a-32 (2pp.)U DPL/1/1/40

Ms. draft of poem beginning 'The cry I would hear', Philip Larkin, pp.32a-33 (2pp.)U DPL/1/1/41

Ms. draft fragments of poetry, Philip Larkin, p.33 (1p.)U DPL/1/1/42

Ms. draft of poem 'Who whistled for the wind that it should break', [CP311], Philip Larkin, pp.34-34a (2pp.)U DPL/1/1/43

Ms. draft of poem beginning 'Dig at the centre of the frost', Philip Larkin, pp.34a-39a (11pp.)U DPL/1/1/44

Ms. draft of poem 'Deep analysis' [CP4], Philip Larkin, p.40 (1p.)U DPL/1/1/45

Ms. draft of fragment of poetry beginning 'Courage of the sun', Philip Larkin, p.46a (1p.)U DPL/1/1/46

Ms. draft of poem beginning 'Sky tumbles, the sea exhausts its tides', Philip Larkin, p.41 (1p.)U DPL/1/1/47

Ms. draft of poem beginning 'I took a lantern', Philip Larkin, p.41a (1p.)U DPL/1/1/48

Ms. draft of fragment of poetry beginning 'Nothing withstands the sliding waters', Philip Larkin, p.42 (1p.)U DPL/1/1/49

Ms. draft of poem 'Come then to prayers' [CP5], Philip Larkin, pp.42a-43 (2pp.)U DPL/1/1/50

Ms. draft of poem beginning 'Sting in the shell', Philip Larkin, p.43a (1p.)U DPL/1/1/51

Ms. draft fragments of poetry, Philip Larkin, p.43a (1p.)U DPL/1/1/52

Ms. draft of poem 'And the wave sings because it is moving' [CP6], Philip Larkin, pp.44-44a (2pp.)U DPL/1/1/53

Ms. draft of first part of poem 'Two guitar pieces' [CP8], Philip Larkin, p.44a (1p.)U DPL/1/1/54

Ts. of poem 'Come then to prayers' [CP5], Philip Larkin, p.45 (1p.)U DPL/1/1/55

Ts. of poem 'And the wave sings because it is moving' [CP6], Philip Larkin, p.46 (1p.)U DPL/1/1/56

Ms. draft of poem 'Two guitar pieces' [CP8], Philip Larkin, pp.47-49 (5pp.)U DPL/1/1/57

Ms. draft of poem 'The dedicated' [CP10], Philip Larkin, p.49a (1p.)U DPL/1/1/58

Ms. draft of poem 'Wedding - wind' [CP11], Philip Larkin, p.50 (1p.)U DPL/1/1/59

Ms. draft of poem 'Träumerei' [CP12], Philip Larkin, pp.50a-51 (2pp.)U DPL/1/1/60

Ms. draft of poem 'To a very slow air' (entitled 'Slow song' [CP13]), Philip Larkin, p.51a (1p.)U DPL/1/1/61

Ms. draft of poem 'At the chiming of light upon sleep' [CP14], Philip Larkin, pp.52-53 (3pp.)U DPL/1/1/62

Ms. draft of poem 'Many famous feet have trod' [CP15], Philip Larkin, pp.53a-55a (5pp.)U DPL/1/1/63

Ms. draft prose piece [play] entitled 'Night in the plague', Philip Larkin, pp.56-60 (9pp.)U DPL/1/1/64

Ms. draft [song] entitled 'Blue shoutin', Philip Larkin, pp.60a-61(2pp.)U DPL/1/1/65

Ms. draft of poem beginning 'That girl is lame', Philip Larkin, p.61a (1p.)U DPL/1/1/66

Ms. draft of poem beginning 'Voices around a light', Philip Larkin, pp.62-63a (4pp.)U DPL/1/1/67

Ms. draft of poem beginning 'Conversations bring in death', Philip Larkin, p.64 (1p.)U DPL/1/1/68

Ms. draft of poem 'Thaw' [CP19], Philip Larkin, pp.64a-65a (3pp.)U DPL/1/1/69

Ms. draft of poem 'Waiting for breakfast, while she brushed her hair' [CP20], Philip Larkin, pp.65a-66 (2pp.)U DPL/1/1/70

Ms. draft of poem 'Conversion of saints' (beginning 'One night in their floodlit hearts'), Philip Larkin, pp.66a-67 (2pp.)U DPL/1/1/71

Ms. draft of poem 'An April Sunday brings the snow' [CP21], Philip Larkin, p.67a (1p.)U DPL/1/1/72

Ms. draft of poem 'I am washed upon a rock' [CP23], Philip Larkin, pp.70-70a (2pp.)U DPL/1/1/73

Ms. draft of poem 'Neurotics' [CP22], Philip Larkin, pp.71-71a (2pp.)U DPL/1/1/74

Ms. draft of poem 'On being twenty - six' [CP24], Philip Larkin, p.74 (1p.)U DPL/1/1/75

Ms. draft of poem 'Modesties' [CP26], Philip Larkin, pp.74a-76 (4pp.)U DPL/1/1/76

Ms. draft of poem 'Sinking like sediment through the day' [CP27], Philip Larkin, pp.76a-77 (2pp.)U DPL/1/1/77

Ms. draft of beginnings of poem 'Fiction and the reading public' [CP34], Philip Larkin, p.77a (1p.)U DPL/1/1/78

Ms. draft of poem 'To failure' [CP28], Philip Larkin, pp.77a-79 (4pp.)U DPL/1/1/79

Ms. draft of poem 'Fiction and the reading public' [CP34], Philip Larkin, pp.79a-80 (2pp.)U DPL/1/1/80

Ms. draft of poem beginning 'Do not think to step from art's plain room', Philip Larkin, p.80a (1p.)U DPL/1/1/81

Ms. draft of poem 'At grass' [CP29], Philip Larkin, pp.81-86a (12pp.)U DPL/1/1/82

Ms. fragment of poem beginning 'Only five minutes more', Philip Larkin, p.86 (1p.)U DPL/1/1/83

Ms. fragment of poetry beginning 'Do not think to step from art's plain room', Philip Larkin, p.86a (1p.)U DPL/1/1/84

Ms. list of ex - forces garments and bedding, opposite a pasted newspaper advertisement for Millets stores, pp.86a-87 (2pp.)U DPL/1/1/85

Newspaper cutting advertising properties [in Leicester], p.87a (1p.)U DPL/1/1/86

Ms. draft of poem beginning 'Last of all, when a great war has ended', Philip Larkin, pp.88-89 (3pp.)U DPL/1/1/87

Ms. draft of abandoned poem beginning 'When I see literature', Philip Larkin, pp.89a-92 (6pp.)U DPL/1/1/88

Ms. draft of quotation from Henry Mayhew's 'London labour and the London poor', used at the beginning of 'Deceptions' [CP32], p.92 (1p.)U DPL/1/1/89

Ms. draft fragments of poetry [a continuation of earlier unfinished poem beginning 'Last of all when a great war has ended'], Philip Larkin, p.92a (1p.)U DPL/1/1/90

Ms. draft of poem 'Compline' [CP31], Philip Larkin, pp.93-94 (3pp.)U DPL/1/1/91

Ms. draft of the poem 'Deceptions' [CP32], Philip Larkin, pp.94a-96a (5pp.)U DPL/1/1/92

Ms. draft fragment of poem beginning 'Nothing is as cruel as art', Philip Larkin, p.97 (1p.)U DPL/1/1/93

Ms. draft of poem beginning 'When I see literature', Philip Larkin, p.97 (1p.)U DPL/1/1/94

Ms. draft of poem 'Coming' (entitled 'February' [CP33]), Philip Larkin, p.97a (1p.)U DPL/1/1/95

Ms. draft of poem 'Fiction and the reading public' [CP34], Philip Larkin, p.98 (1p.)U DPL/1/1/96

Ms. draft of poem 'How to sleep' [CP35], Philip Larkin, pp.98a-99 (2pp.)U DPL/1/1/97

Ms. draft of poem beginning 'You long - haired comet', Philip Larkin, p.99a (1p.)U DPL/1/1/98

Ms. of quotation from Pollio Marcus Vitruvius' 'On Architecture' (Book I, C.VI 11), 1p.U DPL/1/1/99

Workbook no. 2U DPL/1/2

Workbook no. 3U DPL/1/3

Workbook no. 4U DPL/1/4

Workbook no. 5U DPL/1/5

Workbook no. 6U DPL/1/6

Workbook no. 7U DPL/1/7

Workbook no. 8U DPL/1/8

Poetry typescriptsU DPL/2

Poetry publicationsU DPL/3

Prose and other manuscriptsU DPL/4

CorrespondenceU DPL/5

InterviewsU DPL/6

SpeechesU DPL/7

All Souls College, OxfordU DPL/8

PhotographsU DPL/9

MiscellaneousU DPL/10

Second DepositU DPL2

Third DepositU DPL3

Fourth DepositU DPL4