Ben Hamilton Defends Philip Larkin at LARB July 23, 2012: Though there are many controversies surrounding Philip Larkin, who died in 1985, Ben Hamilton at the Los Angeles Review of Books argues that the English poet and novelist is still relevant and worthy of discussion. Though Hamilton gives the most recent Larkin anthology an unenthusiastic review, he states that the extensive collection of [...] by Harriet Staff

Larkin’s unexpected Hallmark moment May 29, 2012: Can great poetry bear a resemblance to a Hallmark moment and still be great? Prolly not. But Ron Rosenbaum takes up the issue over at Slate by looking at 2 most-famous lines by 2 most-famous poets. The lines and poets in question: 1) "What will survive of us is love" from Philip Larkin's "An Arundel Tomb." 2) “We must love one another or [...] by Harriet Staff