"Those of us who love [Larkin's] poems—with their characteristic amalgam of yearning and humour, elegy and euphony, apprehension and epiphany—and who regard Aubade as the greatest postwar lyric poem in English, do not love them to bits; not, at any rate, when those bits are dog-eared duds and rabbit-chewed flops." Dennis O'Driscoll • Irish Times

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