| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1900-1945 | 'he swapped and shared books, especially Billy Bunter stories. ("[Bunter's] roars and squeaks of anguish were constant... | Philip Larkin | Frank Richards | [Billy Bunter stories] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sutton and Larkin grew steadily closer as they moved up through the senior school. Tiring of their childish reading, ... | Philip Larkin | David Herbert Lawrence | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my f... | Philip Larkin | [unknown] | [various fiction works in his father's library] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James... | Philip Larkin | John Cowper Powys | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James... | Philip Larkin | Llewelyn Powys | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James... | Philip Larkin | Theodore Francis Powys | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James... | Philip Larkin | James Joyce | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James... | Philip Larkin | Christina Rossetti | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James... | Philip Larkin | Alfred Edward Housman | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James... | Philip Larkin | Thomas Stearns Eliot | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James... | Philip Larkin | Wystan Hugh Auden | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James... | Philip Larkin | Edward Falaise Upward | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James... | Philip Larkin | Christopher Isherwood | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Throughout 1939 his reports speak of "improvements", and even though he still did "not much like" his English teacher... | Philip Larkin | Paul Verlaine | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Throughout 1939 his reports speak of "improvements", and even though he still did "not much like" his English teacher... | Philip Larkin | Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Verlaine | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Larkin later admitted that he spent most of his time straying from the path Bone [his tutor] intended him to follow. ... | Philip Larkin | George Moore | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'This "new direction" [in literature], Larkin was beginning to realize, would depend on subtlety as well as candour - ... | Philip Larkin | Henry Green | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'This 'new direction' [in literature], Larkin was beginning to realize, would depend on subtlety as well as candour - ... | Philip Larkin | Virginia Woolf | Waves, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'This "new direction" [in literature], Larkin was beginning to realize, would depend on subtlety as well as candour - ... | Philip Larkin | Julian Hall | Senior Commoner, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'This "new direction" [in literature], Larkin was beginning to realize, would depend on subtlety as well as candour - ... | Philip Larkin | Katherine Mansfield | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that... | Philip Larkin | Christopher Isherwood | All the Conspirators | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that... | Philip Larkin | William Wordsworth | 'Composed Upon Westminster Bridge' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that... | Philip Larkin | John Keats | 'Ode to a Nightingale' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that... | Philip Larkin | Henry Newbolt | 'Drake's Drum' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that... | Philip Larkin | Wystan Hugh Auden | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that... | Philip Larkin | Wystan Hugh Auden | Orators, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that... | Philip Larkin | Wystan Hugh Auden | Look, Stranger! | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that... | Philip Larkin | Wystan Hugh Auden | Journal of an Airman, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Before the meeting, Larkin had no detailed knowledge of Watkins's work - what he had read, including the newly publis... | Philip Larkin | Vernon Watkins | Ballad of the Mari Lwyd, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "Which reminds me I noticed an extract from Ben Jonson the other day which said 'the third requisite in our poet, or m... | Philip Larkin | Ben Jonson | extract | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Katherine Mansfield is a cunt, but I share a hell of a lot of common characteristics with her. I should like to read ... | Philip Larkin | Katherine Mansfield | Letters and diary | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'By the way! 'Jimmy & the Desperate Woman' is fucking good! 'After he had given his lecture (it was on Men in Books an... | Philip Larkin | D. H. Lawrence | Jimmy and The Desperate Woman, in The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As Lawrence (+ sign of cross - not christian cross - no devil down in Hell: [Christian cross] (!!)) said 'The reason ... | Philip Larkin | D. H. Lawrence | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | [Lengthy, uncomplimentary quote from H. E. Bates on D. H. Lawrence] 'Perhaps you would like to know who is writing thi... | Philip Larkin | Herbert Ernest Bates | | Unknown |