"In 1957, [Siegfried Sassoon] was delighted to find a modern poet whose work – with some reservations – he liked: Philip Larkin. He nevertheless confessed: 'O, the relief of getting back to Wordsworth from these "modern consciousness" acrobatics which meet my eye everywhere. It is like living out of doors in the country after attending a party of jabbering gin drinkers'." Peter Parker • TLS

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