Philip Larkin
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"When I read Stephen Akey’s piece on Philip Larkin recently in The Millions, I knew I’d found a fellow clerk. Akey, it turned out, had a thematic, albeit totally non-personal, connection with Larkin: they were both librarians. Further, they were... Full Article at LISNews
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Larkin’s ultimate conclusion - that people should stop having children, something he adhered to himself - seems so bleak as to be impossible, and most of us continue to procreate and bring up kids in a perpetual state of hope, anxiety and fretfulness,... Full Article at The Telegraph
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Or, in the words of the great deceased English poet Philip Larkin, "I know my calculus, it says u + me = us." You guys, summer. This is how I feel about it. 1. Four (4) trips to the beach to tan (with sunscreen, mind!) = normal male attention x 3 3. ... Full Article at Glamour
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Although A.N. Wilson began an essay, a few years ago, by writing: "If I had to name one poem, written in England in my lifetime, of unquestionable greatness, it would be Philip Larkin's 'Aubade,'" Aubade is quite controversial among readers and poets,... Full Article at Inside Higher Ed
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The Millions : The Poetry of Mental Unhealth: Philip Larkin. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) As often as not in Larkin, such moments of nearly visionary consciousness are as likely to be negative as positive, but his work is in fact full of intensely lyrical... Full Article at Books, Inq.
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Matthew Schantz is an intern for The Millions. He is currently studying English and Russian at Columbia University. matt says "I’ve read more Larkin reviews in the past month or so than I’ve read of actual Larkin. This one is the best, by far."The... Full Article at The Millions
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I must therefore admit some bias as I protest that Paul Muldoon is unfairly harsh when, in his otherwise illuminating assessment of the new “Complete Poems” (April 22), he dismisses the entirety of the “poems not published in the poet’s lifetime” as... Full Article at The New York Times
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By contrast, “Ars Poetica” is a lovely metaphorical manual detailing what a poem should be and accomplish. But when set head to head against a poem that actually accomplishes that, MacLeish can’t compete. Round goes to Koch. “Talking in Bed” by Philip... Full Article at The Washington Post
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Philip Arthur Larkin, CH, CBE, FRSL (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985), was an English poet, novelist and jazz critic. He spent his working life as a university librarian and was offered the Poet Laureateship following the death of John Betjeman but declined the post. Larkin is commonly regarded as one of the greatest English poets of the latter... Full Article At Wikipedia.org
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