I should add, Doug, that he continued along the lines of that 'they were
figures of his torment'. Not an exact quote, but my paraphrase. He also
said something on the lines of how Larkin as a poet started out like Yeats
and became like Hardy yet Larkin poems characteristically begin with
Hardyeque detail yet aspire to something like a Yeatsian afflatus. You
could say they start from the particular and swell towards the general,
something not unknown in English poetry (take Donne for example) and rather
the reverse of Latinate languages (e.g. French).
On 12 May 2012 15:57, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 'Nuff said....
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> On 2012-05-11, at 11:52 PM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
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> > While the speaker had no doubt that Larkin's personae were Larkin and
> their
> > attitudes his.
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