Larkin and Us
Barbara Everett, 4 November 1982
The Art of Philip Larkin
by Simon Petch.
Sydney University Press, 108 pp., £5.95, September 1982,0 424 00090 3 Show More
by Simon Petch.
Sydney University Press, 108 pp., £5.95, September 1982,
“... principles of social judgment and arrives at a comparable effect of exclusion and of limitation. Simon Petch’s The Art of Philip Larkin is a sensible and perceptive study of Larkin’s poems and novels, which it regards, by and large, appreciatively. If his judgments are (or so it seems to me) erratic, this is because they rest on bases of argument ... ”