Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LAMP UNTO MY FEET (CBS, 10-10:30 a.m.). Recorded readings by the late poet T. S. Eliot...
Eliot lies in ashes. Auden flogs his muse infrequently in exile. England, for so many centuries "a nest of singing birds," finds herself today unwontedly in want of a great poet she can call her own. Yet in a quiet nook of Yorkshire, a strange bird occasionally lifts his voice to cantillate the fierce interior music of a tortured and solitary sensibility...
Philip Larkin is speaking, and intellectual England turns to listen. For if Larkin is not a great poet, he is nevertheless the only British poet who still seems able to compose great poems. He is the Marvell of the age, and his finest verses speak from the heart to the heart in precise but passionate language that can capture a lifetime in a line, an era in an epithet...
Iron Cage. They speak, unhappily, too seldom. Poet Larkin writes his lines at a rate that might embarrass an arthritic tree sloth-four short poems a year, and he usually throws one of them away. In his entire career he has published (aside from two youthful novels) only three books of verse, containing fewer than 100 poems. The Less Deceived, published in 1955, was the blazing eruption of a young volcano, the work of a brilliant man discovering in disorder what he could do. The Whitsun Weddings is a prepared descent into the simmering crater of middle age, the work...
...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...