Through the Lens of Larkin

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A look at the life and loves of Philip Larkin, one of the 20th century's greatest British poets, seen through his photographs.
Throughout his life Larkin recorded the people and events around him and took scores of self-portraits. Poet and academic John Wedgwood Clarke looks through more than five thousand photographs found after Larkin's death and asks what they tell us about his work.

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7 ноя 2017

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@Bazzo61 4 года назад

As a photographer as well as a huge fan of Larkin's poetry, absolutely loved this video. Thank you.

@michaelmcginley7930 Год назад

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.

@robertrobert5583 3 года назад

excellent programme. thank you for posting this.

@MrAristaeus 4 года назад

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.

@Simpaulme 5 лет назад

'A photograph is not a poem.' But his poetry is full of photographic influences - the was crossover.

@simonpearce5039 Год назад

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.

@brandgardner211 5 лет назад

Wonderful report. A great poet. And an interesting photographer.

@JohanHerrenberg 5 лет назад

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.

@Unfunny_Username_389 Год назад

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.

@xz9376 5 лет назад

So well done. Thank you.

@TootightLautrec 6 лет назад

This was great. Thanks.

@johnjosmith42 6 лет назад

Thanks for posting 👌

@trevorbailey1486 4 года назад

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.

@MARKSTEPHENBLUMBEful Год назад

excellent

@muzmix123 Год назад

I didn't know larkin was a photographer 🎞️📸what an incredible discovery...

@orionfoote2890 4 года назад

Well I didn’t know that...but lots of things fit together now - nice programme.

@1951GL 6 лет назад

Wonderful.

@marclayne9261 2 года назад

Most enjoyable, indeed....

@shinywarm6906 Год назад

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..."

@BarryWick 10 месяцев назад

Allen Ginsberg was an excellent photographer....a book was published.

@germandelsol3711 3 года назад

dias que vivimos

@enolux 6 лет назад

very nice

@Simpaulme 5 лет назад

He was ahead of his time .. always with an eye to the personal brand?

@Simpaulme 5 лет назад

Will the collection be digitised, I wonder?

@osip7315 5 лет назад

thanx, larkin makes a lot more sense

@Himmelhauser 2 года назад

Is there a book where you can find these? Or perhaps a website?

@Johnconno 5 месяцев назад

What a microscopic, shabby lens it is.

@_PoeticJustice_ 6 месяцев назад

Please check out the following video for more content about Philip Larkin: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-waMQYg8c8lM.html

@germandelsol3711 3 года назад

y no queremos olvidar ni que nos olviden fotos

@user-xn2hf9re8r 4 года назад

I wonder what happened to Monica? Shame some pple fear the unknown state of marriage.

@themise1416 4 года назад

Monica Jones clip on You Tube ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3KQt15r0tc4.html Also ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tHIkTLiKNdU.html

@user-xn2hf9re8r 4 года назад

@@themise1416 thank you!