Duffy Larkin Critical quotes

DUFFY

DUFFY

Elizabeth O'Reilly

Exploration of the deepest recesses of human emotion, both joy and pain

Jody Allen Randolph

Duffy shares Larkin's tragic view on life, how loneliness haunts her verse'

Elizabeth O'Reilly

She writes in everyday, conversational language, making her poems appear deceptively simple

Carol Ann Duffy

I retain some of the motifs of all that but none of the feelings; faith, guilt or whatever

Peter Cash

Demonstrates how the movement of time is responsible for radical change

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Leo Cox

Larkin exploits his social remoteness by adopting a position of insightful superiority

Appleyard

a hopeless and inflexible pessimist

McClatchy

Larkin wrote of failures and remorse of age, about stunted loves and failed desires

Andrew Motion

None of Larkins poems register complete calm success in love

Dalli

The notion of the romantic countryside is sullied according to Larkin, by the presence of modernisation

Leo Cox

His characters may reflect his own sense of disillusionment and disappointment