I reread all of Larkin and Hardy's selected just recently. Loved Larkin -- he was surely a great poet. Din't care for Hardy, except for "Drummer Hodge," "1967" and maybe 2 others. PN -----Original Message----- From: Douglas Clark [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 11:02 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: academic poetry (& thanks to Mairead Byrne) I have thought that for years about WCW and Hardy. As for Larkin I am thinking about re-reading him as he is occupying more of my imaginative life nowadays. And I must report that my liver was clear at the hospital this morning so I am back on the drink. Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask] Lynx: Poetry from Bath .......... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Robin Hamilton wrote: > From: "Douglas Clark" <[log in to unmask]> > > > I call WCW a 'great little poet', like Hardy. > > Surely unfair to Hardy, Douglas. More appropriate to Larkin. > > Robin >