Larkin's Jazz: Essays and Reviews, 1940-1984

By Philip Larkin

Poet Philip Larkin's reputation as a writer on jazz has so far hinged almost exclusively on All What Jazz, which collects the 126 record-review columns he wrote for the Daily Telegraph from 1961 to 1971. However, he wrote frequently and elsewhere on jazz-for the Observer, Guardian, New Statesman and such journals as American Scholar. In bringing all these pieces together, Larkin's Jazz is not only a valuable addition to Larkin scholarship but an illuminating corrective to all those who regard him as a jazz reactionary. Larkin once wrote that "a critic is only as good as his ear;" Larkin's Jazz offers decisive evidence of just how durable and penetrating his judgments have proven to be.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826453465
• ISBN13: 9780826453464
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.5"