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Discussion: Philip Larkin i love larkins poems, but not as much as i love chocolate. chocolate is my all time fave past time... i adore chocolate. last nite i eat an easter egg, a chocolate cake, a mars bar... well all i can say is that if half of phils poetry is as good as chocolate then its fine by me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Im going now to find some chocolate. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm >>By paul burrel He deserves to be better known, doesn't he? >>By nonyeb He's very highly regarded in academia, but never caught on with the public, probably because he's too misanthropic and negative. I think he's the quintessential late-20th century English poet, have his "Collected Poems", which I read each spring, and with "This Be the Verse" being my all-time favorite. >>By runner Misanthropic? Apparently there were two women in his life & he retained both by playing one off against the other. Scheming as well as misanthropic perhaps! >>By nonyeb Perhaps his poetry will be explored by some who encounter him through viewing the recent film, "The History Boys". The boys quote his poem "MCMXIV" regarding the loss of innocence following WWI. I know I certainly enjoy this and other of his poems. >>By Jim Henderson An Arundel Tomb, Aubade, The Building... so many great poems he left us. Negative, maybe. Lucid, no doubt. What does it matter what the man did in his life, how many women, friends & enemies, cats & dogs. Just read him. >>By Nerval
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