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Duffy Critic Quotations Flashcards

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‘Duffy has an optimistic side Larkin did not’

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Jody Allen Randolph

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Jody Allen Randolph (Duffy has…)

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‘Duffy has an optimistic side Larkin did not’

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‘In each poem I’m trying to reveal a truth’

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Carol Ann Duffy

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Carol Ann Duffy

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‘In each poem I’m trying to reveal a truth’

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‘Filled with lost loves and yearning for the past’

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Katherine Viner

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Katherine Viner

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‘Filled with lost loves and yearning for the past’

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‘Examined love in many forms’

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Adam O’Riordan

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Adam O’Riordan

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‘Examined love in many forms’

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‘Failure, loneliness, isolation and emptiness haunt her verse’

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Jody Allen Randolph

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Jody Allen Randolph (Failure…)

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‘Failure, loneliness, isolation and emptiness haunt her verse’

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‘Duffy’s poems explore how time is inevitably cruel and takes things away from us’

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Michael Woods

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Michael Woods

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‘Duffy’s poems explore how time is inevitably cruel and takes things away from us’

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‘Duffy takes Larkin’s tone and inscribes it on the life of a contemporary woman’

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Eavan Boland

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Eavan Boland

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‘Duffy takes Larkin’s tone and inscribes it on the life of a contemporary woman’

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Duffy gives a voice to ‘previously marginalised or silence figures’

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Clare Mc Ewan

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Clare Mc Ewan

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Duffy gives a voice to ‘previously marginalised or silence figures’

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Duffy’s poetry offers an “exploration of the deepest recesses of human emotion, both joy and pain.”

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Elizabeth O’Reilly

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Elizabeth O’Reilly

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Duffy’s poetry offers an “exploration of the deepest recesses of human emotion, both joy and pain.”

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“In Mean Time, Carol Ann Duffy writes with the force of true feeling.”

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Michael Hulse

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Michael Hulse

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“In Mean Time, Carol Ann Duffy writes with the force of true feeling.”

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“Duffy likes her work to be visible but to remain herself unseen.”

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Peter Ross

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Peter Ross

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“Duffy likes her work to be visible but to remain herself unseen.”

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‘Mean Time is a book concerned with recovery and memory … and displacement’

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Evan Boland

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Evan Boland

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‘Mean Time is a book concerned with recovery and memory … and displacement’

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‘Duffy gives a voice to the voiceless women’

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Prof Rahman

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Prof Rahman

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‘Duffy gives a voice to the voiceless women’

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