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Larkin and Duffy
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"
laureate
of
a
post-christian
,
secular
England
"
Booth
(
Larkin
)
"
genuine
attempt
to
highlight
and
give
focus
to
the
plight
of
the
disadvantaged
other
"
Deryn
Rees
Jones
(
Duffy
)
Larkin
on
the
church
: "
social
cement
in
a
disintegrative
age
"
Ezard
"
poetry
and
prayer
are
very
similar
"
Duffy
Dad "
never
believe
in
God
"
"
anglican
agnostic
"
Larkin
“Duffy
shares
Larkin’s
tragic
view
of
life…
loneliness
haunts
her
verse”
Randolph
“Poetry
of
disappointment
of
the
destruction
of
romantic
illusions”
Peter J King
(
Larkin
)
“accessible
and
entertaining”
Viner
(
Duffy
)
“Larkin’s main fear was that if he got married he would end up imitating his parents’ misery”
Andrew
Motion
“in
clipped
,
lucid
stanzas,
about
the
failures
and
remorse
of
age,
about
the
stunted
lives
and
spoiled
desires”
J.D
McLathy
(
Larkin
)
“many
of
Duffy’s
poems
echo
themes
of
Larkin’s”
Justin
Quinn
“Carol
Ann
Duffy’s
use
of
the
dramatic
monologue
allows
mostly
marginalised
social
types
a
voice.”
Gregson
‘It
can
have
a
terrible
immediacy
,
almost
like
an
ambush
,
like
being
thumped’
Duffy
on
grief
after
death
"
and
unlike
him
I
laugh
,
nay
,
sneer
,
in
the
face
of
death
"
Duffy about Larkin
The voice of 'the man next door' writes about 'the daily
,
the ordinary
,
the domestic'
Armitage
'anxieties
about
the
idea
of
the
unsayable
,
and
the
unplaceable.'
Deryn
Rees
Jones
Duffy presents
"disappointed figures in need of comfort in dark and potentially comfort less world'"
Cash
“Then
,
for
a
while
,
the
world
around
me
sort
of
forced
me
to
be
more
political.”
Duffy
on
Thatcher
‘All
his
values
and
attitudes
were
utterly
,
even
fanatically
negative.’
Amis
“Work is
a
kind
of
vacuum
,
an
emptiness
,”
Phillip Larkin
about his work as a librarian in
Hull
, in a letter to Monica Jones 1955