I love fantasy novels, Philip Larkin is my favorite author, he has the Queen's gold medal for poetry
I haven't read many fantasy novels, other than the Lord of the Rings books.
HE wrote "The North Ship" is was quite popular
Is that also a fantasy novel, it doesn't sound as whimsical.
The North Ship
The North Ship is the debut collection of poems by Philip Larkin (1922–1985), published in 1945 by Reginald A. Caton's Fortune Press. Caton did not pay his writers and expected them to buy a certain number of copies themselves. A similar arrangement had been used in 1934 by Dylan Thomas for his first anthology.
Some of the poems were composed while Larkin was an undergraduate at the University of Oxford, but the bulk were written in the period 1943 to 1944 when he was running the public
The Lord of the Rings".
The series has been included in "Fantasy: The 100 Best Books", "" and "100 Must Read Fantasy Novels" as one of the greatest fantasy works of the twentieth century. Literary critic Harold Bloom has praised the series as the best fantasy novels of the twentieth century and one of the greatest sequences in modern world literature. "Gormenghast" is often credited as the first fantasy of manners novel. The books have been translated into over twenty languages.
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