Philip Arthur Larkin (1922-1985) stands as one of the most significant English poets of the post-war era, a writer whose unflinching observations of ordinary life and masterful technical skill earned him a place among the finest poets of the 20th century. Often labeled as the "saddest heart in the post-war supermarket," Larkin crafted verse that captured the disillusionment and quiet desperation of modern Britain wit…
“I can’t understand why people are so keen to put the clock back. What’s the point of going back to a time when you didn’t know as much?”
Neighbourhood:
Confessional Poets, Death & Mortality
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Despair, Irony
Thomas Sturge Moore, born on 4 March 1870 at Hastings, Sussex, and dead on 18 July 1944 at Windsor, was one of the most distinctive English poet-artists of his generation: a writer of symbolist and classical verse, a critic of painting and artistic purpose, a wood engraver, and an accomplished designer of books. He belonged to that transitional company whose work joined the late Victorian devotion to beauty, craftsma…
“The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.”
Neighbourhood:
Decadent Poets, Dramatic Poets, Edwardian Poets, Georgian Poets, Modernist Poets, Symbolist Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Spirituality, Longing
