Talk:Philip Larkin
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Describe the new page here.
A bit fawning, yes?
Yes: I've rounded it out a bit to give it a little shade & depth. -- I haven't got the Motion bio handy to check but my recollection is that the reasons for Larkin's turning down the poet-laureate job is because he already was seriously ill. It was a bitter disappointment. --NDorward
He moved from prose to poetry?? His collected works include (excellent) poetry going back to his school days. Deleting that strange comment.--Samuel J. Howard 03:10, 2 May 2004 (UTC)
Oooh...reading through the page, it is disaproving of his right-wingedness. For instancce, the poem "Homage to a Government" is discounted on that basis. I plan on editing for POV, but will wait a few days for comments.--Samuel J. Howard 03:16, 2 May 2004 (UTC)
The removal of the comment re: his career as a novelist is fine, as it's misleading, though actually Larkin did intend to be a novelist; the choice of poetry as a vocation came late, once the novels dried up, though he'd certainly been writing verse assiduously from his teens. -- The comment about "Homage to a Government" isn't about its politics but about the acridness of tone in Larkin's later career. --N