SOURCE: "Philip Larkin," in Eight Contemporary Poets, Oxford University Press, 1974, pp. 69-94.
In the essay below, Bedient praises Larkin's poetic voice, claiming "[his achievement has been the creation of imaginative bareness, a penetrating confession of poverty."]
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