Robert C. Evans is Professor of English at Auburn University at Montgomery, USA. He is author of Perspectives on World War I Poetry (Bloomsbury, 2014) and (with Eric Sterling) The Continuum Handbook of Seventeenth-Century Literature (Continuum Press, 2010), among many other titles.

• Introduction1. Larkin Arrives: The 1950s and 60s2. Larkin Rises: The 1970s3. Larkin Triumphant: The 1980s4. Larkin Under Siege: The 1990s5. Larkin Triumphant Once More: The 2000s6. Newer Approaches to Larkin: The 2010sConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex.

'This is the most comprehensive study to date of the critical reception of Philip Larkin's poetry. It is also an immensely valuable contribution to scholarship in its own right. Lucid and incisive, it offers an illuminating account of both the poetry and the diverse, often controversial, responses it has prompted since its first publication.' - Stephen Regan, Durham University, UK

Robert C. Evans is Professor of English at Auburn University at Montgomery, USA. He is author of Perspectives on World War I Poetry (Bloomsbury, 2014) and (with Eric Sterling) The Continuum Handbook of Seventeenth-Century Literature (Continuum Press, 2010), among many other titles.

• Introduction1. Larkin Arrives: The 1950s and 60s2. Larkin Rises: The 1970s3. Larkin Triumphant: The 1980s4. Larkin Under Siege: The 1990s5. Larkin Triumphant Once More: The 2000s6. Newer Approaches to Larkin: The 2010sConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex.

'This is the most comprehensive study to date of the critical reception of Philip Larkin's poetry. It is also an immensely valuable contribution to scholarship in its own right. Lucid and incisive, it offers an illuminating account of both the poetry and the diverse, often controversial, responses it has prompted since its first publication.' - Stephen Regan, Durham University, UK

Robert C. Evans is Professor of English at Auburn University at Montgomery, USA. He is author of Perspectives on World War I Poetry (Bloomsbury, 2014) and (with Eric Sterling) The Continuum Handbook of Seventeenth-Century Literature (Continuum Press, 2010), among many other titles.

• Introduction1. Larkin Arrives: The 1950s and 60s2. Larkin Rises: The 1970s3. Larkin Triumphant: The 1980s4. Larkin Under Siege: The 1990s5. Larkin Triumphant Once More: The 2000s6. Newer Approaches to Larkin: The 2010sConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex.

'This is the most comprehensive study to date of the critical reception of Philip Larkin's poetry. It is also an immensely valuable contribution to scholarship in its own right. Lucid and incisive, it offers an illuminating account of both the poetry and the diverse, often controversial, responses it has prompted since its first publication.' - Stephen Regan, Durham University, UK