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BooksNovember 2009 Something intended A review of Such Deliberate Disguises: The Art of Philip Larkin (Continuum Literary Studies) by Richard Palmer The title of Richard Palmer’s book comes from a passage in T. S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men”:
These lines are more ominous than Palmer’s book requires. He merely claims that Philip Larkin was not—or not entirely—the glum, racist, sexist, misogynist he ... This article is available to subscribers and for individual purchaseSubscribe to TNC (Print and Online editions) Subscribe to TNC (Online only) This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 28 November 2009, on page 72 Copyright © 2009 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Something-intended-4324
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