[COMPLETE VERSION.] A chief complaint against Larkin is the insularity, his reaction to modernism that confuses an affirmation of Hardy’s special … More
Tag: Philip Larkin
82. (Philip Larkin)
After reading Tennyson’s “Locksley Hall,” a friend half-recalled Paul Fussell’s opinion that verse in a trochaic meter could never be … More
56. (Stevie Smith)
“Her poems speak with the authority of sadness,” wrote Larkin, who might be said to aspire to the same in … More
26. (W.H. Auden)
The mistake wasn’t in thinking that poetry was a game, but in thinking that the game had to be played … More
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