“Who else takes us, and takes us so often, from sunlit levity to mellifluous gloom? And let it be emphasised that Larkin is never “depressing”. Achieved art is quite incapable of lowering the spirits. If this were not so, each performance of King Lear would end in a Jonestown.”
—Martin Amis, “The Larkin Puzzle,” a Financial Time review of the poetry of Philip Larkin
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