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| | Larkin in Context - The Second International Conference on the Work of Philip Larkin, HULL, UK, 28-30 June 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | She argued that although Larkin was not a 'real' homosexual, he adopted defensive homosexuality in the 1940s because of his strong father, weak mother and lack of success with girls. |
 | | Then, in the second paper of the session, 'The Reception of Larkin's Work in Ireland', Tony Hall from the University of Limerick began by asserting that poetry is universal and appeals by taking the reader out of the everyday, and that Larkin in particular is honest and direct. |
 | | I was on my way to the Second International Conference on the work of Philip Larkin, the 'Don Juan of Hull', as he was recently (and none-too-intelligently) called in an advertisement. |
| www.philiplarkin.com /events/2002conf/2002conf.htm (5020 words) |
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