Bugger me blue
Ian Hamilton, 22 October 1992
The Selected Letters of Philip Larkin
edited by Anthony Thwaite.
Faber, 759 pp., £20, October 1992,0 571 15197 3 Show More
edited by Anthony Thwaite.
Faber, 759 pp., £20, October 1992,
“... from Thwaite himself, the few who are spared include figures like Vernon Watkins, Gavin Ewart, Barbara Pym: allies who are genuinely liked and admired but who are nonetheless junior to Larkin in talent and repute. The really big hates tend to be reserved for sizable poetic rivals. Ted Hughes is a recurrent, near-obsessive target, with S. Heaney ... ”