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Larkin and Larkinism

on BBC Radio 3

Donald Hall has been known for many years in England as a sympathetic and perceptive introducer of new American poetry. At the same time he has followed the practice of English poetry with an attentive eye.
This evening he develops a hard-hitting critique of some tendencies which he sees exemplified in Philip Larkin 's recent anthology The Oxford Book of 20th-Century English Verse. followed by an interlude

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Donald Hall
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Philip Larkin

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