Editing Philip Larkin (section)

===Prose non-fiction===
Larkin was a critic of [[modernism]] in contemporary art and literature. His scepticism is at its most nuanced and illuminating in ''Required Writing'', a collection of his book reviews and essays,<ref>James 1983.</ref> and at its most inflamed and polemical in his introduction to his collected jazz reviews, ''All What Jazz'', drawn from the 126 record-review columns he wrote for ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' between 1961 and 1971, which contains an attack on modern jazz that widens into a wholesale critique of modernism in the arts.<ref>{{cite journal
 |last1=Leggett 
 |first1=B.J 
 |title=Larkin's Blues: Jazz and Modernism 
 |journal=Twentieth Century Literature 
 |issue=Summer, 1996 
 |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0403/is_n2_v42/ai_19259725/pg_4?tag=artBody;col1
 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120712233210/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0403/is_n2_v42/ai_19259725/pg_4?tag=artBody;col1
 |url-status=dead
 |archive-date=12 July 2012
|publisher=Hofstra University 
}}
</ref> Larkin (not unwillingly) acquired a reputation as an enemy of modernism, but recent critical assessments of Larkin's writings have identified them as possessing some modernist characteristics.<ref>Corcoran 2007, p. 147.</ref>