Aug 16, 2008 05:10
Philip Larkin almost tried to sound unattractive and misanthropic. How'd he describe himself at Oxford As a balding salmon. Ultra-conservative in politics and art, he praised Margaret Thatcher and mocked experimenters like Picasso. For Larkin a college librarian, poetry was "an affair of sanity,...<p><a href="http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~a/wp-dyn/rss/artsandliving/books/index_xmla=yawkhI"><img src="http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~a/wp-dyn/rss/artsandliving/books/index_xmli=yawkhI" border="0"><img src="http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/artsandliving/books/index_xml/~4/366008163" height="1" />