High Windows

When Philip Larkin''s High Windows first appeared, Kingsley Amis spoke for a large and loyal readership when he wrote: ''Larkin''s admirers need only be told that he is as good as ever here, if not slightly better.''Like Betjeman and Hardy, Larkin is a poet who can move a large audience - without betraying the highest artistic standards.The poems in High Windows illustrate Larkin''s unrivalled ability to bring lyrical expression to ordinary, urban lives. It is a gift that makes him one of the most truly popular of the twentieth century''s poets.