Critics for Larkin Flashcards

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Appleyard- ‘he is an advocate…

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…of misanthropy and pessimism’

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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’

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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’

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Appleyard- ‘Larkin is a hopeless…

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…and inflexible pessimist’

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Motion- ‘Death, in Larkins view, is…

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…an utterly comfortless blank’

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