Duffy - critics Flashcards
(6 cards)
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Brooks (2006)
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[is Larkin’s] “More expansive, approachable descendant”
2
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Malcolm (2009)
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“Use of humour and parody clearly serves […] an empowered female voice”
3
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Dent (1999)
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”Is a democratic poet. She is a poet of the people, of the common place”
4
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Aydin (2010)
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”Particular responsiveness to the society she lives in”
4
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Brittan (1994)
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”Ability to express powerful emotions in detached ‘everyday’ language within the limits of set poetic form”
5
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Martell & Driver (1988)
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“Go-getting me-first, thrusting - Thatcherite world of 1980s values”
