Thanks Marion. I shall enter both. Just a little work on that last stanza. I went to see my daughter the painter who had done a canvas of people (she usually does animals) which was curiously threatening. She said she had noticed that and thought she would go back to animals because she didn't WANT to do art that was threatening or left the onlooker uneasy. I thought she isn't for the 21st century which supposes all art should threaten or make you feel bad. I agree with her and Dorothy Sayers however. I think art's primary purpose is to cheer people up. Otherwise, what's the good of it, in the long run? And if you ask whether Philip Larkin cheers you up, I say he does, or at least he cheers ME up.
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