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Philip Larkin
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First published December 22, 1975
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Alan Brownjohn
61 books1 followerAlan Charles Brownjohn was an English poet and novelist.
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June 24, 2025
[Longman Group Ltd] (1979). SB. Reprint. 32 Pages. Purchased from Books at the Basin.
A short, sharp, lucid, intelligent survey - just as one would expect from Alan Brownjohn (1931-2024).
“…Larkin has looked for his values to the past and the customs deriving from it, seeing in the present only the irreversible recession of all innocence, worth and sweetness from human living, and in the future nothing more than a process of unbearable decline and death, to be faced and defined with unflinching precision.” (p. 32.)
Contains a “Select Bibliography”.
Not indexed.
A short, sharp, lucid, intelligent survey - just as one would expect from Alan Brownjohn (1931-2024).
“…Larkin has looked for his values to the past and the customs deriving from it, seeing in the present only the irreversible recession of all innocence, worth and sweetness from human living, and in the future nothing more than a process of unbearable decline and death, to be faced and defined with unflinching precision.” (p. 32.)
Contains a “Select Bibliography”.
Not indexed.
Displaying 1 of 1 review