Philip Larkin and his poems: a prickly writer ascends to Poets' Corner

Larkin will join such luminaries as Wordsworth and Chaucer in Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey

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Philip Larkin is to be the latest addition to Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.

The Oxford graduate, who spent 30 years working as a librarian at Hull University, will have a floor stone dedicated to him and unveiled on 2 December 2016, the 31st anniversary of his death.

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