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COLLECTED POEMS by Philip Larkin; edited by Anthony Thwaite...
...Philip Larkin, the pre-eminent poet in English of his time, died, after a brief struggle with cancer, in 1985, at age 63. Soon afterward his diaries were shredded, as he had instructed, at the library of England's Hull University, where he had worked for 30 years in self-elected obscurity. His manuscripts and unpublished poems escaped a similar fate thanks to a contradiction in his will: one clause called for the destruction of these papers, while another allowed trustees of the estate the right to decide which ones merited publication. Given the choice between guillotine and press...
...nature of his triumph, though, is elusive and peculiar. Larkin and his contemporaries inherited the scorched earth of modernism -- the towering shadow cast by Yeats, the multilingual complexities introduced by Eliot and Pound, the daunting technical virtuosity of Auden. Starting out, Larkin had the good taste to imitate all these (except Pound), with some Dylan Thomas thrown in for good measure. He got out from under his predecessors only when he learned to lower his voice, to submerge complexities of thought and feeling beneath a serene, limpid surface...
Scoring PlayerGl A Pts Pen PM Kyle McDonough 27 28 55 25 58 Ian Boyce 15 26 41 13 26 Jim Larkin 16 18 34 4 8 Jim Walsh 13 19 32 15 38 Ricker Love 9 20 29 10 20 Duke Stump 12 16 28 14 28 Dan Lambert 11 10 21 5 10 John LeClair 9 12 21 20 40 Jerry Tarrant 3 18 21 27 54 Marc Lebreux 8 10 18 17 32 David Browne 5 10 15 11 22 Jim Fernholz 3 11 14 8 16 Dennis Miller 3 9 12 6 12 Mike McLaughin...
Rookie of the Year Andre Faust Princeton (17) Jim Larkin Vermont (15) Shawn Rivers St. Lawrence...