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One of the best-known, best-loved poets of the English-speaking world, Larkin had a relatively small number of poems published during his lifetime. This Collected Poems, which J. D. McClatchy called "a fascinating and indispensable text" in The New York Times Book Review, brings togethContinue
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lrb published on Tue, 7 Sep 2010
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The Master of the Ordinary
The average face, the average voice, the average life—that is, the life most of us lead, apart from film stars and dictators—had never been defined so precisely in English poetry until Philip Larkin. He invented a muse: her name was Mediocrity. She w ... (read full critics)
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- English Books
- Paperback 330 Pages
- Edition: Rep
- ISBN-10: 0374522758
- ISBN-13: 9780374522759
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Pub date: Oct 01, 1993
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover and Others
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Phil the Lark
Philip Larkin, we are told, left instructions in his will that certain of his writings had to be destroyed, unread. His executors obeyed: the word is that several of the poet’s notebooks, or journals, are now ashes. Did Larkin expect to be so obeyed? ... (read full critics)