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Praising Hardÿ s poems, Larkin said:
I was struck by their tunefulness and their feeling, and the sense that here was somebody writing about things I was beginning to feel myself. I don’t think Hardy, as a poet, is a poet for young people. I know it sounds ridiculous to say I wasn’t young at twenty-five or twenty-six, but at least I was beginning to find out what life was about, and that’s precisely what I found in Hardy. In other words, I’m saying that what I like about him primarily is his temperament and the way he sees life.1
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Ian Hamilton, ‘Four Conversations’, London Magazine, vol. 4, no. 8 (November 1964) p. 75.
C. B. Cox and A. E. Dyson, Modern Poetry: Studies in Practical Criticism (London, 1979 ) p. 141.
Winifred Nowottny, The Language Poets Use, 5th edn (London, 1975) p. 15.
Christopher Levenson, ‘Some More Practitioners’, Delta, no. 8 (Spring 1956) p. 27.
Quoted in Blake Morrison, The Movement (Oxford, 1980) p. 125.
Andrew Motion, Philip Larkin (London, 1982) p. 60.
William E. Baker, Syntax in English Poetry, 1870–1930 ( Berkeley, Calif., 1967 ) p. 129.
Roger Bowen, ‘Poet in Transition’, Iowa Review, no. 8 (1977) p. 91.
A. Kingsley Weatherhead, ‘Philip Larkin of England’, ELH, no. 38 (December 1971) p. 625.
Philip Oakes, ‘The Unsung Gold Medallist’, The Sunday Times, 27 March 1966, p. 65.
Francis Berry, Poets’ Grammar: Person, Time and Mood in Poetry (London, 1958) p. 40.
David Holbrook, Llareggub Revisited: Dylan Thomas and the State of Modern Poetry (London, 1962) p. 174.
Quoted in Neil Powell, Tradition and Structure in Contemporary Poetry (unpublished M. Phil. thesis, University of Warwick, 1975 ) p. 90.
Mary M. Macdermott, Vowel Sounds in Poetry: Their Music and Tone-Colour (unpublished Ph. D. thesis, University of Glasgow, 1941 ) vol. 1, pp. 17–18.
Geoffrey N. Leech, A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry (London, 1980) p. 94.
Keith Sagar, ‘Church Going’ and ‘Wedding-Wind’, in Criticism in Action, ed. Maurice Hussey (London, 1969) p. 126.
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Hassan, S.K. (1988). The Less Deceived. In: Philip Larkin and his Contemporaries. Macmillan Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19329-5_3
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