English Literature / Unit 17 ENL 1621 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Philip Larkin
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The idea
Philip Larkin, a librarian, came to prominence with The Less Deceived, of nineteen fifty-five, followed by The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows. His poems are plain-spoken, ironic and skeptical, often about ordinary English life, ageing and death. He died in nineteen eighty-five.
In practice
Plain, ironic, English.
Where people slip
Larkin rejected Modernist difficulty.
Your place on the trail
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