I love poetry a great author we learned about in College Literature was English poet Philip Larkin. 
I believe his pen name was Brunette Coleman and he was known for parody
Yes Philip did use the pseudonym Brunettee Coleman a lot of writers did do you think it was to keep them undercover.
Possibly.  Especially if they wrote about controversial subjects
He would always say he liked to surround his poems based on emotions and places and relationships, I thought about doing writing but going under another name.
Well pen names are definatly common place for a lot of writers
, to combine more than one author into a single author, or for any of a number of reasons related to the marketing or aesthetic presentation of the work. The author's name may be known only to the publisher or may come to be common knowledge.
Western literature.
Western literature Europe and the United States.
An author may use a pen name if their real name is likely to be confused with that of another author or notable individual. For instance, from 1899 the British politician Winston Churchill wrote under
Brunette Coleman
Brunette Coleman was a pseudonym used by the poet and writer Philip Larkin. In 1943, towards the end of his time as an undergraduate at St John's College, Oxford, he wrote several works of fiction, verse and critical commentary under that name, including homoerotic stories that parody the style of popular writers of contemporary girls' school fiction.
The Coleman oeuvre consists of a completed novella, "Trouble at Willow Gables", set in a girls' boarding school; an incomplete sequel, "Michaelmas