Letter: How the nation divides over Larkin
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: Bryan Appleyard's critique of Philip Larkin - long overdue, in my opinion - was argued with a sensitivity and open-mindedness sadly lacking in his subject.
Your columnist Miles Kington recently asked if there should be an epithet 'Larkinesque', and if so how it should be defined. I would suggest, in Bryan Appleyard's words, something that 'exudes a repellent, smelly, inadequate masculinity'. As their hero was apparently immune to criticism, none of his fans should balk at this epitaph.
Yours faithfully,
EDDIE LEWISOHN
London, SE18
20 March
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