Critical Quotes Of Both Duffy & Larkin Flashcards
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Peter R King - Larkin Based
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‘There is a lucidity of language which invites understanding even when the ideas expressed are paradoxical or complex’
2
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Andrew Swarbrick - Larkin based
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‘His writing is driven by a sense of failure in both’
3
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Justin Quinn
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‘Many of Duffy’s poems echo themes of Larkin’s’
4
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Jody Allen-Randolph
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‘She has an optimistic side that Larkin did not, most visible in her many love poems’
5
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Duffy on Larkin
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‘I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn, and thin on top, and unlike him I laugh, nay, sneer, in the ace of death’
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Jody Allen-Randolph
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‘Duffy shares Larkin’s tragic views of life…loneliness haunts her verse’
