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"What music lies in the cold print": Larkin's experimental metric.
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December 22, 2001|
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"When I read Larkin first in 1956, he made other styles obsolete. He was an innovator."
(Robert Lowell, qtd. in Larkin, Collected Poems dustjacket)
It is perhaps because "Larkin's attitude to [...] experimentation in the arts was well known" (Swarbrick 73) that Grosvenor Powell, in a recent article on iambic pentameter and twentieth-century metrical experimentation, finds no need to mention him at all. His reputation as complacent Philistine is, of course, partly of the poet's own making: he once notoriously remarked, "Form holds little interest for me. ...
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They turn on Larkin. (Philip Larkin) (Poetry Today)
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Selected Letters of Philip Larkin.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review
; ...technical difficulty arises in reviewing Larkin's Letters: in all my experience I have...This makes it impossible to do justice to Larkin's idiom, since one cannot quote it. The...such verbiage there is the firm ground of Larkin's thinking about poetry, again in the...
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Amputee golfer surprised by National Commander's Trophy.(Robert J. Larkin)
Magazine article from: DAV Magazine
; ...was shocked and so honored, Robert J. Larkin said on being selected to receive the...Chapter 76, the National Amputee Chapter, Larkin's keen competitive spirit, love of golf...Robert T. Reynolds presented the trophy to Larkin at the tournament awards banquet Aug...
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Getting to know Philip Larkin: the life and letters.
Magazine article from: The Literary Review
; ...two hefty volumes - Motion's Life and Larkin's Letters - roused a critical storm whose...moment. Critics took turns in savaging Larkin for the sexist, racist, xenophobic, and...his standing as a poet. The response to Larkin, in contrast, has been anything but tolerant...
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Ryan Larkin and the addictive allure of illusions.
Magazine article from: Take One
; During the summer of 1958, 15-year-old Ryan Larkin, his brother and friends were playing...lake. Something went dreadfully wrong and Larkin's brother died. It was a terrible boating...felt terrible and missed him greatly, Larkin would later say. The death of his brother...
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Gene Larkin: Twins' World Series hero in 1991: former utility player drove in the winning run in Game 7 of the Fall Classic with a pinch-hit single against the Braves. (Where Are They Now?).(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Baseball Digest
; ...a walk. People are always shaking Gene Larkin's hand or patting him on the back. Every...didn't know said, `Thanks a lot for '91,' Larkin said. People want to thank me, congratulate...one of the bigger moments in my life, Larkin said. I was a role player. An average...
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David W. Larkin, 72.(DEATHS)
Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
; LEOMINSTER David W. Larkin, 72 years old, of 29 Merriam Parkway, Fitchburg, formerly of...Worcester after an illness. He is survived by 2 sons, Dean P. Larkin and James M. Larkin both of Leominster; 2 daughters, Linda L. Maahs and her husband...
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Chasing the Dream.(singer Patty Larkin)(Interview)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
; Acoustics cult fave Patty Larkin--in her first out interview--explores...to be, says singer-song-writer Patty Larkin, talking about what inspired her ninth...to have the passion for what you do? Larkin--whose reputation as a musician's musician...
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Madeline T. (Olsson) Larkin, 85.(DEATHS)
Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
; PEABODY Madeline T. (Olsson) Larkin, age 85, wife for 60 years of Robert Larkin, of Peabody, formerly of Salem, died Tuesday evening...eight different states. As these moves occurred, Mrs. Larkin became active in the local community and was a hospital...
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Poetic Designs: An Introduction to Meters, Verse Forms, and Figures of Speech.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; ...accentual-syllabic metrics, giving priority to the iambic pentameter as model unit and all possible variations...rhythm even in a perfectly regular iambic pentameter. Much later on, word and phrase boundaries...The second chapter goes beyond the iambic pentameter to take in accentual ...
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