Larkin critics Flashcards
1
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Appleyard “He is a hopeless…
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and inflexible pessimist”
2
Q
Rosen “Larkin’s view of death is chilling and effective because of…
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the very ordinariness and everyday settings he writes about”
3
Q
McClary “A poetry of lowered sights and…
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patiently diminished expectations”
4
Q
Golding “His poetry reflected…
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his own life”
5
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Golding “In Larkin’s view, in a self-deluded world…
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love is the greatest allusion of them all’
6
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Golding “One cannot help but read his lines as a more wide-ranging indictment of…
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society’s norms, in which everyone is trapped”
7
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Rosen “Larkin’s view of death is chilling and effective because of…
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the very ordinariness and everyday settings he writes about”
