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Article: Getting to know Philip Larkin: the life and letters.
- Article from:
- The Literary Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1995
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The publication in England of these two hefty volumes - Motion's Life and Larkin's Letters - roused a critical storm whose rumblings continue to this moment. Critics took turns in savaging Larkin for the sexist, racist, xenophobic, and - to round things off - hypochondriac mutterings that recur in the letters and that Motion also points to in the biography.
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