Philip Larkin - Crit Quotes 3.5 / 5 based on 3 ratings ? English LiteraturePhilip LarkinA2/A-levelOther Created by: 12russellwmCreated on: 16-05-18 15:01 Philip Larkin "They f*ck you up your mum and dad, they may not mean to but they do" 1 of 9 Terry Eagleton "It is the truth that Larkin f*cked up his readers by seducing them into his own dingy world of boredom, self-pity and disgust" 2 of 9 Philip Larkin All know they are going to die, not yet, perhaps not here, but in the end" 3 of 9 Terry Eagleton [Larkin] is a death-obsessed, emotionally-retarded misanthropist who had the impudence to generalise his own fears and failings to the way things are" 4 of 9 Terry Eagleton When [Larkin] died in 1985, Larkin left British poetry sick and weasing in the casualty ward of modern culture" 5 of 9 Terry Eagleton "It's a drab world that Larkin invites us into of suffering and solitude, sexual disappointments and the fear of death" 6 of 9 Professor John Lucas "Larkins poetry at its worst is of course drenched with the sadness of things" 7 of 9 Terry Eagleton "[Larkin] was a professional grouser, who didn't mind confessing what a poor thing his life actually was" 8 of 9 Terry Eagleton "Larkins life was a study in timidity and evasion" 9 of 9
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