![“Readers have a perfect right to regard Philip Larkin, as I do not, as a complete shit. But if they consider his personal failings indistinguishable from his poetry, I think the loss is theirs.”
-Stephen Akey disentangles Larkin’s wonderful poetry from the (at times) unsavory poet lurking behind it in “The Poetry of Mental Unhealth: Philip Larkin”
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“Readers have a perfect right to regard Philip Larkin, as I do not, as a complete shit. But if they consider his personal failings indistinguishable from his poetry, I think the loss is theirs.”
-Stephen Akey disentangles Larkin’s wonderful poetry from the (at times) unsavory poet lurking behind it in “The Poetry of Mental Unhealth: Philip Larkin”
[Image source Telegraph.uk]
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