SOURCE: “Larkin's Blues: Jazz and Modernism,” in Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 42, No. 2, Summer, 1996, pp. 258-276.
In the following essay, Leggett explores British poet Philip Larkin's fascination with traditional jazz music.
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