Larkin Critic Quotations Flashcards
‘casual, habitual racist, and an easy misogynist’
Lisa Jardine
Lisa Jardine, a feminist critic
“casual, habitual racist, and an easy misogynist”
‘[Larkin is] a hopeless and inflexible pessimist.’
Bryan Appleyard
Bryan Appleyard
‘[Larkin is] a hopeless and inflexible pessimist.’
‘Death, in Larkin’s view, is an utterly comfortless blank.’
Andrew motion
Andrew motion (Death, in Larkin’s…)
‘Death, in Larkin’s view, is an utterly comfortless blank.’
‘It’s unhappiness that provokes a poem. Being happy doesn’t provoke a poem.’
Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin
‘It’s unhappiness that provokes a poem. Being happy doesn’t provoke a poem.’
‘He had a great love for his country and its culture’
Leo Cox
Leo Cox
‘He had a great love for his country and its culture’
‘None of Larkin’s poems register the achievement of complete calm success in love’
Andrew Motion
Andrew Motion
‘None of Larkin’s poems register the achievement of complete calm success in love’
‘Larkin’s interest in images drawn from advertising is because they represent society’s collective desires and aspirations’
Andrew Swarbrick
Andrew Swarbrick
‘Larkin’s interest in images drawn from advertising is because they represent society’s collective desires and aspirations’
‘It is a study in self pity’
Christopher Ricks
Christopher Ricks
‘It is a study in self pity’
‘He is an advocate of misanthropy and pessimism’
Brian Appleyard
Brian Appleyard
‘He is an advocate of misanthropy and pessimism’
‘I don’t want to transcend the commonplace; I love the commonplace’
Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin
‘I don’t want to transcend the commonplace; I love the commonplace’
‘His dreary, predictable, damp, reductive misery tolls relentlessly’
Brian Appleyard
Brian Appleyard
‘His dreary, predictable, damp, reductive misery tolls relentlessly’
‘Larkin’s poetry represents an art of desolation’
Raymond Gardner
Raymond Gardner
‘Larkin’s poetry represents an art of desolation’
