Larkin Critical Quotes Flashcards

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Larkin

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‘Deprivation is for me what Daffodils were to Wordsworth’

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Larkin

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‘Nothing, like something, happens everywhere’

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Larkin

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‘What will survive if us is love’

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Larkin

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“Im just an anonymous figure who people will dimly remember seeing when the evening paper says ‘Hull man dies’”

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Andrew Motion

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“A very English, glum accuracy about emotions, places and relationships”

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Heaney

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‘Larkin is daunted by both life and death’

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Larkin

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‘I am going to the inevitable’

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Larkin

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‘I’m terrified of the thought of time passing’

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Neumann

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poems involve “withdrawal, isolation and self depreciation”

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Gilson

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“The roots of his poetry in everyday experience… layered with the breathtaking beauty of his spare language first flourished in Belfast”

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