Tag: Philip Larkin

A poem about waiting, and wishing you had a drink – The New York Times

No one would call “Party Politics” a masterpiece: Commissioned for a 1984 issue of Poetry Review devoted to “Poetry and Drink,” it didn’t appear in any of the books issued in Larkin’s lifetime. But it shares the qualities of some of his best poems. Larkin is prized for his blunt honesty about the inevitability of disappointment, and for the stoicism and virtuosity that lighten the gloom.
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