He would have fit right in here in the Zone.
"Larkin's posthumous reputation was affected by the publication of ... an edition of his letters (1992), which revealed his obsessions with pornography, his racism, his increasing shift to the political right wing, and his habitual expressions of venom and spleen."
Still, anyone who's friends with the Amises is OK in my book.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Larkin