'Of all modern English poets, Larkin is perhaps the one with whom most readers feel some imaginative affinity, a sense of having lived in the same world, with the same streets, the same unvoiced longings and anxieties.'

https://literaryreview.co.uk/hull-revisited

'He wrote obsessively and at tremendous length – as a youth William drew a witty sketch of his father vigorously beating a dead horse – and frayed his nerves in the process.'

John Banville charts the turbulent life of William James.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/the-pragmatists-progress