I love Larkin. Love him. Love.
thing is he was also funny, which a lot of people can't deal with.
yes, i know his dad was a Nazi. and yes, he liked spanky porn mags
and all that. that he drank too much and was wildly racist in later life.
that, in fact, he was a bit of an all round nut-job.
which leaves the rather awkward question as to why he was so good.
there is a statue of him in Hull. and The Philip Larkin Society may
have something to say about trying to expunge him from the canon.
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