May 28, 2012 · The 14th-century tomb effigy in Chichester Cathedral that inspired Larkin’s poem “An Arundel Tomb” Photograph by Tom Oates. “Amor vincit omnia,” Love conquers all. Or so Virgil wrote. But does it? Does love survive dissolution of the lovers? And if so, where exactly would it be, where does all
The Art Damien Hirst Stole, No Love Lost, at the Wallace Collection
Starlee Kine tries to write the perfect break-up song with some help from Phil Collins.
The latest arts & entertainment news and reviews. A tumultuous Cannes Film Festival concluded Saturday with the Palme d’Or awarded to Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Shoplifters, a tender portrait of a poor, impoverished family, while Harvey Weinstein accuser Asia Argento vowed justice will come to all sexual predators.
Life and career. Kingsley Amis was born on 16 April 1922 in Clapham, south London, the son of William Robert Amis, a mustard manufacturer’s clerk in the City of London and his wife, Rosa Annie (née Lucas). He was raised in Norbury – in his later estimation “not really a place, it’s an expression on a map [–] really I should say I came from Norbury …
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Philip Larkin – This Be The Verse They fuck you up, your mum and man. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had An
Afternoons by Philip Larkin. A poem which reflects on the subject of marriage is ‘Afternoons’ by Philip Larkin. The poem deals with Larkin’s view on mothers
