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...In 1965, Philip Larkin pronounced himself “well rewarded” by which Bob Dylan album that he was reviewing for the Daily Telegraph?...
...The short and thoughtful poem “Days”, written in 1953 by the English poet Philip Larkin, is an apparently simple and tender reminder that, whether we like it or not, we enact all the details and experiences...
...The book’s title comes from the oft-quoted ending of Philip Larkin’s “An Arundel Tomb”, which serves as its epigraph: “Our almost-instinct almost true: / What will survive of us is love”....
...One writer who knew that very well was Philip Larkin – his description of a G&T in “Sympathy in White Major” (1974) is so euphonious it deserves a trigger warning: When I drop four cubes of iceChimingly...
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...Philip Larkin’s 1974 poem “The Trees” posits that seasonal renewal is a form of grief. In a park in north London, several years ago, I bought a bench to commemorate the death of my boyfriend Peter....
...Things went similarly smoothly when Motion was teaching English at Hull University, where he hit it off with Philip Larkin (“the greatest poet alive”) and, after Larkin’s death in 1985, Motion became the...
...In the last three decades, he confined himself mostly to writing on his idols (Bellow and Nabokov, Iris Murdoch, Jane Austen, Philip Larkin) and a few senior peers (Updike, Roth, Ballard, DeLillo)....
...But Crumey seems less interested in bringing things to a clear conclusion here than he was in earlier novels, and when another new narrator appeared on page 456, I felt like Philip Larkin: “Too much confectionery...
...We are getting towards the end of the centenary celebrations for the poet Philip Larkin (born in 1922) so it’s a good time to ponder Toads and Toads Revisited, produced with a seven-year gap between them...
...Not for him the response he quotes from Philip Larkin: “No, not without being someone else.”...
...“Home is so sad, it stays as it was left,” wrote Philip Larkin. Little Holland House stands as evidence to the contrary. Interactive 3D scan of Little Holland House here. Cartography by Liz Faunce....
...As in Souvenir, Bracewell is coming from a similar place to the poet Philip Larkin, who said that “at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.”...
...It’s an autobiographical account of his relationships with the late Saul Bellow, Philip Larkin and Christopher Hitchens, and it’s deeply moving to read knowing Amis would himself die three years after it...
...My English teacher, Mrs Richards, made much of the modest accoutrements of the bedsit in Larkin’s poem “Mr Bleaney”: “Bed, upright chair, sixty-watt bulb” — the leanest of companions, an eight-syllable home...
...Philip Larkin once accused him and other Modernists of “a quality of irresponsibility peculiar to this century”, to which the answer is that Picasso was the supreme visual chronicler of the century’s irresponsibility...
...In short, all the ride-ons did well and at least their cacophony warns wildlife to scatter and so avoid meeting the sad end of the hedgehog in Philip Larkin’s “The Mower”....
...Now try this I was one of the guests in the BBC’s Larkin Revisited series, talking about one of my favourite poets, Philip Larkin, and specifically his excellent poem Talking in Bed....
...Tolkien wrote The Lord of the Rings while working as an academic at the University of Oxford: his students included Philip Larkin, one of the great English poets of the 20th century....
...To be fair, he makes some imaginative leaps, including a nice comparison of the self-hating ex-boxer Mike Tyson with the poet Philip Larkin. There is the odd incisive line....
...Reading Martin Amis’s semifictional Inside Story (about his relationship with three dead writers — Saul Bellow, Philip Larkin and Christopher Hitchens) sent me back to Hitchens’ Hitch-22....
...The poet Philip Larkin asked why he should let work, which he envisioned as a toad, “squat on his life”....
...In Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and Me, John Sutherland acknowledges that his subject’s claims to significance are slender without her connection to Larkin....
...And there is a mnemonic echo too of Philip Larkin’s poem “Church Going”: a cyclist’s meditation on detours to country churches, pondering a future when they lapse out of use....
...Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and Me: Her Life and Long Lovesby John Sutherland, Weidenfeld & Nicolson £20 Academic Monica Jones was “the sharpest-eared of listeners to literature I’ve known”, writes Sutherland...
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