Word: larkins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These lines were written by the most talented of The Movement's poets, 40-year-old Philip Larkin (The Less Deceived). Larkin has the happy faculty of rescuing the special tenderness or peculiar anguish of small experiences that everyone has had but no one has bothered to examine. At his best, he is a dwindled Wordsworth in whose ear the ghost of Rilke sometimes whispers. In this little poem, one of Larkin's subtlest, it whispers of-death...
Poetry & Life. Lowell, Roethke, Bishop, Larkin, Kinsella-they are all good poets, but to say that they are the best of the postwar period is not to say much for a period characterized by a ferment without much effect, a prodigy promised but not performed. Among the couths, even the inconsequent are competent. "The level of technique in verse," says Poet Auden, "is probably higher today than ever before." But with all their skill, most contemporary poets seem to have little to say. To paraphrase Poet Jarrell: They are professional magicians who have nothing up their sleeves-not even their...
...Buzzy Burns's tavern, with its row of convenient cabins out back. His wife Donna is both high-spirited and indecisive, but he settles her down with a tumbling succession of babies. His spinster sister Alma proves more difficult. She falls in love with soft-spoken Roger Larkin, a feckless Southerner who holds the depressed view that the U.S. is a giant pool table and he its eight ball: the Great Pool Player Upstairs puts him now in the side pocket of Louisiana, now in the corner pocket of Texas. While he wanders, Alma sits patiently home, waiting...
...times. He is, in fact, out of his times, a reactionary poet-clear, courtly, precise, varied in tone, passionate but restrained, using poetry as both a special ceremony and a daily occurrence. Ironically, to a great many of Britain's younger poets, among them Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, D. J. Enright and Elizabeth Jennings -sometimes collectively known as "The Movement"-Graves's old-fashioned vir tues seem highly contemporary. Writes British Critic Walter Allen: "It is as though the world has caught up with Graves so that, mysteriously, he even appears as one of the young...
Shepard could use Al Yarbro, who was recently reinstated to the team, but he hasn't worked in a few weeks. He also has Dave Larkin, who last pitched against B.C. last week, and possibly Dick Garibaldi, who relieved in the Brandels game...