here at the back of the class, and grant that The Complete Poems is an almost fanatically painstaking and altogether admirable piece of work. The publishers, though betraying a hint of desperation in their efforts to make the volume seem attractive to the common poetry reader--is there such a creature?--are right when they urge that "Archie Burnett's commentary establishes [Larkin] as a more complex and more literary poet than many readers have suspected." That it does, and much else besides.
from The Guardian: The Complete Poems by Philip Larkin, edited by Archie Burnett--review
then London Evening Standard: Philip Larkin: The Complete Poems--review
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