Bill cheers it's not just me that was shocked! -I thought perhaps others
here were in the know
-I have not as far as my failing memory tells me got into Ezra P
On 11/09/2017 23:13, Bill Wootton wrote:
> Well, I'm shocked, Patrick, as an old leftie too. I have liked seeing the
> world through Larkin's jaundiced eyes but I didn't realise the apparent
> corollary of that sort of jaundice. Lawrence, are you an Ezra P man at all?
>
> Bill
>
> On Tue, 12 Sep 2017 at 5:38 am, Patrick McManus <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> L am proud to be old leftie! still care etc cheers P
>>
>>
>> On 11/09/2017 19:21, Lawrence Upton wrote:
>>> well, yes
>>> though I wouldn't quite put it like that
>>>
>>> classifying oneself as an old leftie is almost apologetic to my ear
>>>
>>> I don't require artists to hold views akin to mine to admire them as
>> artists
>>> but it seems to me that his views are ignorant and wrong-headed AND there
>>> is nothing much admirable about his poetry as poetry
>>>
>>> L
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11 September 2017 at 18:59, Patrick McManus <
>>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> oldster was meant to be me -thanks for reply I think it difficult for me
>>>> old leftie to stomach his repulsive side
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 11/09/2017 18:49, Lawrence Upton wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> which oldster is that? you or him?
>>>>> *
>>>>> I have never had much time for Mr Larkin...
>>>>> If other people find him of quality, fine; but I have yet to be
>> convinced
>>>>> of it
>>>>>
>>>>> and what he is saying can be repulsive
>>>>>
>>>>> the final sentence of this article sums it up for me
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> L
>>>>>
>>>>> On 11 September 2017 at 17:18, Patrick McManus <
>>>>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://socialistreview.org.uk/427/philip-larkin-racist-bigot-and-poet
>>>>>> any comments for this oldster ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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