Critics for Larkin Flashcards
1
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Appleyard- ‘he is an advocate…
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…of misanthropy and pessimism’
2
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Dalli- ‘The notion of the romantic countryside…
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…according to Larkin, has been sullied by the presence of modernisation’
3
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Academy of American Poets- ‘Mocking wit does not conceal the poets…
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…dark vision and underlying obsession with universal themes of mortality, love and human solitude’
4
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Appleyard- ‘Larkin is a hopeless…
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…and inflexible pessimist’
5
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Motion- ‘Death, in Larkins view, is…
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…an utterly comfortless blank’
