Critics Flashcards
Motion on Larkin’s view on death
‘Death, is an utterly comfortless blank.’
Brownjohn on the movement & Larkin’s appealing yet disturbing view.
‘profoundly disturbing…yet appealing’
Bell on Larkin’s lucid language and what it enables him to do
‘lucidity of language…ideas expressed are paradoxical and complex’
Applewood on Larkin’s pessimism (in MR Bleaney)
“he is an advocate of misanthropy and pessimism”
Wilson on Larkin’s view of ageing
‘unflinchingly brutal’
Wilson on the paradoxical nature of Larkin
‘morose & pessimistic…funny and witty’
Jardine on Larkin’s ‘controversial’ nature
‘casual, habitual racist, and an easy misogynist’
Viner on Duffy’s use of language/technique
‘Razor sharp technique’ - Stuffed
Cash on Duffy & time
‘reflects on change, time & loss’
Poems: Never go Back, Pluto, Mrs Havisham
The economist review on Duffy & people in society.
‘people on the margins of society.’
- Poems: Mrs Havisham, Pluto
Rees-Jones on Duffy’s simplicity of work
‘simplicity of her work…addressing complex philosophical issues.’
Critical views on Larkin’s ‘The Movement’
‘Narrow-minded little Englandism’
AO3/5 Jardine on the cultural frame surrounding Larkin
‘takes racism and sexism for granted as crucially a part of the British national heritage.’
Larkin on his own political identity
‘I’ve always been right wing…I identify the Right with certain virtues (thrift, hard work…desire to preserve) and the Left with certain vices.’
Some critics on Duffy’s feminist status
Duffy ‘goes beyond straightforward feminism’
