Word: dryasdust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...judge by his day-to-day life, Larkin is a contemporary Dr. Dryasdust. Since winning a first in English at Oxford, he has passed his entire adult life tending libraries; he is now head librarian at the University of Hull. At 42, Bachelor Larkin looks the part, and likes to look it: "Nothing embarrasses me more than to be typed as a poet. My friends are very tactful. They've decided that I'm kind of the next best thing to a poet you can get in welfare-state Britain, where everything is brown and without passion...
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