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23 Cards in this Set
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Martin Amis |
"Larkin had no emotions, no vital essences worth looking back on, but, siphoned all his energy, and all his love, out of the life and into the work" |
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James Booth - The Independent |
"There is indeed a paradoxical relationship between Larkin the poet, and Larkin the man." |
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Ricarhd Palmer |
"[on Toads Revisited] the poem ends, almost predictably, as a quiet celebration of work and purposefulness " |
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Leo Cox |
"Many have seen Larkin as the 'archetypal English Poet' because for ll his criticism and cynicism, he had a great love for his country and his culture" |
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Leo Cox |
"birth, death, funerals, love, community and marriage are all degraded at Larkin's hands" |
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Andrew Swarbrick |
"poems such as 'Ambulances' and 'An Arundel Tomb' also want to pay homage to human qualities of sympathy and persistence which resist the passage of time" |
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Philip Larkin |
"[with reference to 'Sunny Prestatyn] that is exactly the reaction I want to prevoke, shock, outrage at the defacement of the poster and for what the girl stood for." |
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Richard Palmer |
"It is a poet afraid of madness who envies 'Bleany' his insufferable sane routine" |
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Andrew Motion |
"Death, in Larkin's view, is an utterly comfort less blank. The frequency and forceful Ness with which he envisages its approach go a long way towards explaining why he is so often regarded as an unreservedly pessimistic poet" |
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Andrew Swarbrick |
"Larkin's interest in images is drawn from advertising because they represent society's collective desires and aspirations" |
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Andrew Motion |
"he is much less interested in nature for its own sake than for the opportunities it offers to moralise about human condition" |
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Andrew Motion |
"none of Larkin's poems registers the achievement of complete calm success in love" |
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Janice Rossen |
"Larkin's fury against women is not so much a declared stage of seige against them personally as it is an eternal battle raging within himself" |
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Christopher Ricks |
"[he writes] like something almost being sad...it is a study of self-pity" |
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Bryan Appleyard |
"he is an advocate of misanthropy and pessimism" |
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Peter Levi |
"Larkin's poems are more alive in a cogitatory state than a sophisticated physical one" |
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Bryan Appleyard |
"Larkin is a hopeless and inflexible pessimist" |
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Andrew Motion |
"tensions...between an undecided pessimism and a wishful-thinking optimism" |
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Andrew Motion |
"profound and unforgettable things to say about common experience." |
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Peter King |
"strength of careful social observation" |
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Andrew Swarbrick |
"Larkin's poetry is the persuit of difference" |
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James Navemore |
"despite a 'certain coldness', Larkin is able to 'recover an honest sense of joy and beauty'" |
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John Betjeman |
'he is "tenderly observant" |