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...Dick Wordsworth," said the rugged, corduroyed, craftsmanlike writer-teacher. "Give your name, shoot your questions...
DIED. Philip Larkin, 63, critically acclaimed British poet of almost defiant diffidence and pervasive melancholy who once said that "deprivation is for me what daffodils were to Wordsworth"; of throat cancer; in Hull, England. A reclusive provincial librarian for more than 40 years after graduating from Oxford, Larkin honed his clarity of observation, particularly regarding homely, accessible subject matter, in two novels (Jill, 1946, and A Girl in Winter, 1947) and four spare collections of verse published at roughly ten- year intervals. He shunned the readings, lectures and interviews that increasing fame brought him. The overwhelming favorite to succeed Poet...
...Spenser: For Hire, based on Robert B. Parker's popular detective novels, the sleuthing moves to Boston. Parker's hero is a "sensitive" private eye who quotes Shakespeare and Wordsworth, dabbles in gourmet cooking and drives a 20-year-old Mustang. Unfortunately, straitlaced Star Robert Urich seems more at home with TV dinners and spy novels, and the pace of the two-hour pilot is plodding. This show seems as dead as the Red Sox's pennant hopes...
...titles and used books at half-price downstairs. For more mainstream new books, there's the Paperback Booksmith (25 Brattle St.). Reading International (47 Brattle St.) is also good for late-night shoppers and offers a huge selection of magazines and a mixture of popular and scholarly titles. Wordsworth (30 Brattle St.) rounds off the Square's general reading book shops...
...more mainstream new books there's the Paperback Booksmith (25 Brattle St.) It welcomes browsers until midnight every day of the week. Reading International (47 Brattle St.) is also for late-night shoppers and offers a huge selection of magazines and a mixture of popular and scholarly titles. Wordsworth (30 Brattle St.) rounds off the Square's general reading book shops...