"one writes... to reproduce in other people sensations... that you've had yourself"
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Philip Larkin
"I want readers to carry away from the poem the experience"
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Peter R. King
"a poetry of disappointment, of the destruction of romantic illusions, of man's defeat by time and his own inadequacies"
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Peter R. King
"are rooted in actual in actual experiences and convey a sense of place and situations, people and events, which gives an authenticity to the thoughts that are then usually raised by the poet's observation"
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Andrew Motion
"interested in nature... for the opportunities to moralise"
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Andrew Motion
"None of Larkin's poems registers success in love"
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Andrew Motion
"he is... often regarded as unreservedly pessimistic"
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Andrew Motion
"Larkin's poetry grows out of rage"
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Janice Rossen
"Larkin's fury against women is an eternal battle raging within himself"
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Janice Rossen
"Larkin's habitual melancholy is driven by intense fury"
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Dannie Abse
"seems... to be the best of the movement poets"
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Andrew Swarbrick
"His poems make us aware of the interpenetration of fantasy and reality"
"torn between wanting the conventional... and wanting to be alone"
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John Betjemin
"closed the gap between poetry and the public"
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Lisa Jardine
"Britishness of Larkin's poetry carries a baggage of attitudes"
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Bryan Appleyard
"adopted a personal pose of extreme pessimism"
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Bryan Appleyard
"grinding focus on littleness and triviality"
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Margaret Welden
"he cultivated a host of personae"
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Margaret Welden
"disastrous... to confuse Larkin with his narrator"
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Richard Palmer
"What frightened Larkin most was the prospect of going mad"
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Seamus Heaney
"we respond constantly to the melody of intelligence"
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Seamus Heaney
"exemplary in the way he sifts the conditions of contemporary life"
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Seamus Heaney
"repining for a more crystalline reality to which he might give allegiance"
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Seamus Heaney
"He is suspicious of any easy consolation"
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Seamus Heaney
"as explicit as he is evocative"
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Leo Cox
"he had a great love for his country and its culture"
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Leo Cox
"For him, life is [an] over-rated interlude"
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Leo Cox
"uses nature... for discussing... how transient and pointless everything... is"
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Leo Cox
"Larkin feels cheated by existence"
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Leo Cox
"The characters... reflect his own sense of detachment"
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Leo Cox
"adopting a position of... superiority over his subjects"
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Leo Cox
"degraded at Larkin's hands"
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Peter Forbes
"bicycle-clipped representative of the dowdy, repressed fifties"
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Alan Brownjohn
"Larkin employed the traditional tools of poetry... to explore the often uncomfortable or terrifying experiences thrust upon common people in the modern age"
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J.D. McClatchy
"in clipped, lucid stanzas, about failures and remorse of age, about stunted lives and spoiled desires"
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