Larkin Critics
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- Larkin Critics
- Julian Barnes "Larkins work is like a squeezed flannel of disappointment"
- Larkin "Old age with its distorting mirror memories follows youth with its raw pleasures"
- David Punter "He is pre-eminently a poet of loneliness and loss"
- Eric Homberger "The saddest heart in the post-war supermarket"
- Andrew Motion "A very English glum accuracy about emotions, places and relationships"
- Christopher Ricks "His work is a study of self pity"
- Lee Cox "He had a great love for his counrty and its culture"
- Pearl Bell "Poems described as being filled "with the melancholy truth of things in the shrunken, vulgarised and porochial England of the 1970s"
- Andrew Motion "Unillusioned accuracy"
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