Philip Larkin Critics 0.0 / 5 ? English LiteraturePhilip Larkin The Whitsun WeddingsA2/A-levelWJEC Created by: itsimogenCreated on: 06-03-17 11:43 Lisa Jardine Larkin is "a casual, habitual racist and an easy misogynist." 1 of 17 Bristow "His poetry served as a central component of late-twentieth-century English cultural consciousness." 2 of 17 Heaney "Larkin is daunted by both life and death." 3 of 17 Reagan "Larkin's deep enchantment with the state of nation." 4 of 17 Mackinnon "Ostensibly dismissive, even derisive attitude to religion." 5 of 17 David Punter {Poems} "In the poems, there is often a strange beauty to be found mysteriously in the most unexpected places." 6 of 17 David Punter {Loneliness} "Larkin is pre-eminently a poet of loneliness and loss." 7 of 17 Hall "Larkin's despondency can all too easily obscure our sense of his capacity for good will and pleasure." 8 of 17 Andy Golding "It would be wrong to claim that Larkin was entirely pessimistic in approach." 9 of 17 James Naremore {Onlooker} "Larkin seldom presents himself as anything but an onlooker." 10 of 17 Michael Georin-Tosh "Larkin cast himself as a resolutely ordinary and unpretentious poet." 11 of 17 A. Banerjee "Larkin's writing is curiously uplifting because of the way it shapes the sadness of life into poetry." 12 of 17 Blake Morrison "Larkin is the knowing outsider." 13 of 17 Peter R. King "A poetry of disappointment, of the destruction of romantic illusions, of man's defeat by time and his own inadequacies." 14 of 17 Nick Johnston Jones "The poetic persona may vary between poems, but solicitude and separation are common figures." 15 of 17 James Naremore {Whitsun Weddings} "Poems such as 'The Whitsun Weddings' show that Larkin is trying to assert his humanity, not deny it." 16 of 17 King "The lucidity of language invited understanding even when the ideas expressed are paradoxical or complex." 17 of 17
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