Duffy Critic Quotations Flashcards
‘Duffy has an optimistic side Larkin did not’
Jody Allen Randolph
Jody Allen Randolph (Duffy has…)
‘Duffy has an optimistic side Larkin did not’
‘In each poem I’m trying to reveal a truth’
Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy
‘In each poem I’m trying to reveal a truth’
‘Filled with lost loves and yearning for the past’
Katherine Viner
Katherine Viner
‘Filled with lost loves and yearning for the past’
‘Examined love in many forms’
Adam O’Riordan
Adam O’Riordan
‘Examined love in many forms’
‘Failure, loneliness, isolation and emptiness haunt her verse’
Jody Allen Randolph
Jody Allen Randolph (Failure…)
‘Failure, loneliness, isolation and emptiness haunt her verse’
‘Duffy’s poems explore how time is inevitably cruel and takes things away from us’
Michael Woods
Michael Woods
‘Duffy’s poems explore how time is inevitably cruel and takes things away from us’
‘Duffy takes Larkin’s tone and inscribes it on the life of a contemporary woman’
Eavan Boland
Eavan Boland
‘Duffy takes Larkin’s tone and inscribes it on the life of a contemporary woman’
Duffy gives a voice to ‘previously marginalised or silence figures’
Clare Mc Ewan
Clare Mc Ewan
Duffy gives a voice to ‘previously marginalised or silence figures’
Duffy’s poetry offers an “exploration of the deepest recesses of human emotion, both joy and pain.”
Elizabeth O’Reilly
Elizabeth O’Reilly
Duffy’s poetry offers an “exploration of the deepest recesses of human emotion, both joy and pain.”
“In Mean Time, Carol Ann Duffy writes with the force of true feeling.”
Michael Hulse
Michael Hulse
“In Mean Time, Carol Ann Duffy writes with the force of true feeling.”
“Duffy likes her work to be visible but to remain herself unseen.”
Peter Ross
Peter Ross
“Duffy likes her work to be visible but to remain herself unseen.”
‘Mean Time is a book concerned with recovery and memory … and displacement’
Evan Boland
Evan Boland
‘Mean Time is a book concerned with recovery and memory … and displacement’
‘Duffy gives a voice to the voiceless women’
Prof Rahman
Prof Rahman
‘Duffy gives a voice to the voiceless women’
