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Collected Poems

by Philip Larkin

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Max said: " Dag nab it, these darn poems rhyme far too much - and far too many masculine rhymes too - but you gotta hand it to the guy, some of them are so good it makes you sad he breaks all the establishment rules on line length, not scanning and not rhyming. ...more "

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