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Larkin Critic Quotations Flashcards

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‘casual, habitual racist, and an easy misogynist’

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Lisa Jardine

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Lisa Jardine, a feminist critic

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“casual, habitual racist, and an easy misogynist”

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‘[Larkin is] a hopeless and inflexible pessimist.’

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Bryan Appleyard

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Bryan Appleyard

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‘[Larkin is] a hopeless and inflexible pessimist.’

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‘Death, in Larkin’s view, is an utterly comfortless blank.’

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Andrew motion

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Andrew motion (Death, in Larkin’s…)

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‘Death, in Larkin’s view, is an utterly comfortless blank.’

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‘It’s unhappiness that provokes a poem. Being happy doesn’t provoke a poem.’

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Philip Larkin

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Philip Larkin

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‘It’s unhappiness that provokes a poem. Being happy doesn’t provoke a poem.’

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‘He had a great love for his country and its culture’

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Leo Cox

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Leo Cox

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‘He had a great love for his country and its culture’

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‘None of Larkin’s poems register the achievement of complete calm success in love’

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Andrew Motion

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Andrew Motion

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‘None of Larkin’s poems register the achievement of complete calm success in love’

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‘Larkin’s interest in images drawn from advertising is because they represent society’s collective desires and aspirations’

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Andrew Swarbrick

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Andrew Swarbrick

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‘Larkin’s interest in images drawn from advertising is because they represent society’s collective desires and aspirations’

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‘It is a study in self pity’

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Christopher Ricks

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Christopher Ricks

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‘It is a study in self pity’

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‘He is an advocate of misanthropy and pessimism’

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Brian Appleyard

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Brian Appleyard

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‘He is an advocate of misanthropy and pessimism’

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‘I don’t want to transcend the commonplace; I love the commonplace’

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Philip Larkin

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Philip Larkin

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‘I don’t want to transcend the commonplace; I love the commonplace’

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‘His dreary, predictable, damp, reductive misery tolls relentlessly’

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Brian Appleyard

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Brian Appleyard

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‘His dreary, predictable, damp, reductive misery tolls relentlessly’

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‘Larkin’s poetry represents an art of desolation’

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Raymond Gardner

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Raymond Gardner

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‘Larkin’s poetry represents an art of desolation’

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