i love to read fantasy novels and poetry.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Philip Arthur Larkin (9 August 1922 \u2013 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist and librarian. His first book of poetry, \"The North Ship\", was published in 1945, followed by two novels, \"Jill\" (1946) and \"A Girl in Winter\" (1947), and he came to prominence in 1955 with the publication of his second collection of poems, \"The Less Deceived\", followed by \"The Whitsun Weddings\" (1964) and \"High Windows\" (1974). He contributed to \"The Daily Telegraph\" as its jazz critic from 1961 to 1971, articles gathered in \"All What Jazz: A Record Diary 1961\u201371\" (1985), and he edited \"The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse\" (1973). His many honours include the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. He was offered, but declined, the position of Poet Laureate in 1984, following the death of Sir John Betjeman. After graduating from Oxford in 1943 with a first in English language and literature, Larkin became a librarian. It was during the thirty years he worked with distinction as university librarian at the Brynmor Jones Library at the University of Hull that he produced the greater part of his published work. His poems are marked by what Andrew Motion calls \"a very English, glum accuracy about emotions, places, and relationships\", and what Donald Davie described as \"lowered sights and diminished expectations\".\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "My favorite author is Philip Larkin. He was an English poet and novelist."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I've never heard of him.  What did he write?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "He wrote \"Jill\" and \"A Girl in Winter\". He passed away in 1985."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Shakespeare and Keats on English poets that come to mind.  Of course, they were Centuries prior.  I wonder who inspired Larkin."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Good question. His poems were considered very English with glum accuracy about emotions and places."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Almost sounds like Emily Dickenson.... with the gloom and doom."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Larkin also worked for thirty years as university librarian at Brynmore Jones Library at the University of Hull."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That would have to have been great inspiration.  My grandmother was a librarian... and she read SO many books."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Librarians fill a very important role by providing access to information for library patrons."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I believe librarians help instill the love of reading, as well.  "}]