Philip Larkin chosen as Britain’s favorite poet
Wednesday October 15, 2003
from The Guardian & BBC News:
“Poets’ poll crowns Larkin king of verse,” “Larkin is nation’s top poet” of the last 50 years.
Reporting the results of a reader survey taken by the Poetry Book Society & the Poetry Library to mark their 50th anniversary, The Guardian is reporting a prize fight: “Philip Larkin has survived his brief exile from literary fashion as a middle-aged misanthrope with too pronounced a taste for pornography, to emerge unreservedly as the poetry buff's favourite poet of the past 50 years.... He has triumphantly kicked his rival Ted Hughes, who was appointed poet laureate when Larkin refused the post, into second place. Hughes’s wife, Sylvia Plath, came equal second with her husband.”
Related resources:
Our reference page on Philip Larkin
“Poets’ poll crowns Larkin king of verse,” “Larkin is nation’s top poet” of the last 50 years.
Reporting the results of a reader survey taken by the Poetry Book Society & the Poetry Library to mark their 50th anniversary, The Guardian is reporting a prize fight: “Philip Larkin has survived his brief exile from literary fashion as a middle-aged misanthrope with too pronounced a taste for pornography, to emerge unreservedly as the poetry buff's favourite poet of the past 50 years.... He has triumphantly kicked his rival Ted Hughes, who was appointed poet laureate when Larkin refused the post, into second place. Hughes’s wife, Sylvia Plath, came equal second with her husband.”
Related resources:
Our reference page on Philip Larkin
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