On this day in 1922 Philip Larkin was born in Coventry, England. By mid-century he was a librarian at the University of Hull and well on his way to becoming one of the preeminent poets of his generation; this reputation is based on poems such as "I Remember, I Remember," in which a man returning to northern England by train barely glances at the city of his birth:
"Was that," my friend smiled, "where you 'have your roots'?" ... FULL STORY »
