Tuesday, March 20, 2007

News at Eleven: No matter what the count and countess

thought of each other, it seems--on superficial reading--that [Philip] Larkin had no doubt about what eternal truth their effigies represented. "What will survive of us is love." But read the verse again. "Time has transfigured them into untruth." What will survive of us will not be love.

from Mail&Guardian: The lost joy of 'difficult' poetry

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