Larkin and Duffy Critics Flashcards
1
Q
Miserable Larkin
A
“Hermit of Hull”
2
Q
Pessimism of Larkin
A
Bryan Appleyard - “Larkin is a hopeless and inflexible pessimist”
3
Q
Larkin on Love
A
Andrew Motion - “None of Larkin’s poems registers the achievement of complete calm success in love”
4
Q
Larkin on Death
A
Andrew Motion - Death to Larkin is “an utterly comfortless blank”
5
Q
Duffy and Larkin link
A
Jody Allen - Randolph - “Duffy shares Larkin’s tragic view of life”
6
Q
Duffy on the past
A
Kath Viner - “filled with lost lovers and yearning for the past”
7
Q
Duffy on cruelty of time
A
Duffy explores how time is “inevitably cruel and takes things away from us”
