Is there room for people like me in Larkin’s England?
His poems ignored Britain’s postwar diversity and dynamism, and his racist language challenged my love of his craft.
ByNew Times,
New Thinking.
His poems ignored Britain’s postwar diversity and dynamism, and his racist language challenged my love of his craft.
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