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...poems, "Witch Burning," one of the better works in the collection, and "Whitsun", an unimpressive piece, she sees herself as an American heroine with a Scarlet Letter on her breast. At times she rings of Emily Dickinson, "A bodiless soul could pass another soul. In this clear air and never notice it--", from the "Widow" a poem of the fantasies of grief clearly about her mother. A much less proficient poem "Black Rook in Rainy Weather" recalls in tone and subject to Robert Frost's "Dust of Snow" about the crow and the saving of a day he had rued...
...usually with weapons ranging from meathooks and carving forks to chisels and pipes. On a train returning from a match at Coventry, 300 skinheads nearly demolished the carriages; 60 were arrested. Nearly 100 were jailed after mob violence from Brighton to Blackpool during last month's three-day Whitsun weekend...
...WHITSUN WEDDINGS, by Philip Larkin. Crystalline images and insights are distilled from commonplace circumstances by the reticent librarian whose spare, introspective lines have won him a reputation as Britain's finest contemporary poet...
...WHITSUN WEDDINGS, by Philip Larkin. Crystalline images and insights distilled from commonplace settings and circumstances by the reticent British librarian whose spare, introspective lines have won him a reputation as Britain's finest contemporary poet...
...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 of a mature man discovering systematically...