Word: larkins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TITLE: PHILIP LARKIN: A WRITER'S LIFE...
...LEADING BRITISH POETS appeared together on a platform at Hull University. One was Ted Hughes, the widower of Sylvia Plath: intense, leather- jacketed, trailing a romantic aura. The other was Philip Larkin, an overweight, bald, bespectacled and partly deaf figure in a dark suit who later described himself as providing the "sophisticated, insincere, effete, and gold-watch-chained alternative...
...Larkin made a life's work of offering the unfashionable alternative -- joking about it but meaning it too. His verse, unlike Hughes', was resolutely un-modernist; he clung to the notion that poems should be clearly written in everyday language and should avoid posturing and pretension at all costs -- though, in his hands, that left plenty of room for craft and eloquence. He steered clear of London and the literary life, spending his career as a librarian in provincial cities. Formidably shy, he never married, remaining deeply attached to a burdensome mother until her death at 91, when...
Harvard's defense, which has held firm throughout the season, will have its hands full, however, with Vermont's wiley Jim Larkin and Captain Mike McLaughlin...
...Catamounts are hoping that their youth will triumph over their inexperience. Having lost start forward John LeClair and goalie Mike Millham, Vermont will look for players to fill their shoes. Seniors Jim Larkin and Mike McLaughlin will try to inject some punch into the Catamount offense, while fellow senior Jeremy Benoit will lead the team's defense...