"An Arundel Tomb" by Philip Larkin

Soundtrack to this episode

Text of poem here

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-Sentimentality

-National character

-Philip Larkin, novelist: "Jill," and "A Girl in Winter"

-"The Movement" movement

-The Oxford Book of 20th Century English Verse

-"Church-Going" by Philip Larkin

-The blindness of historical consciousness

-Temporal and generational erosion

-"Miniver Cheevy" by E.A. Robinson

-Last lines and legacies

-But is it sentimental??

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