PHILIP LARKIN
December 2013
Craig Raine's collected essays, More Dynamite, is a collection that blows holes in fellow poets' work, and ends leaving the poetry landscape very battered and bleak
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November 2011
Philip Larkin's letters to his lover Monica Jones speak of a non-sexual intimacy and chart his progression to poetic maturity
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December 2010
The considered high-mindedness of Eliot or Larkin is no longer a prerequisite for members of today's literary establishment
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