tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5010170380967519230.post2706813813012335425..comments2024-03-23T20:37:37.891-07:00Comments on First Known When Lost: "Spring, Of All Seasons Most Gratuitous"Stephen Pentzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882220887712092005noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5010170380967519230.post-39782657604158775112013-03-20T21:16:21.971-07:002013-03-20T21:16:21.971-07:00Sam Vega: It is one of his lesser known poems, and...Sam Vega: It is one of his lesser known poems, and I hadn't thought of it in a while. Despite your weather now, I'm certain the parks will soon be as described by Larkin.<br /><br />As for the kerfuffle about Larkin and Amis: the less said the better. It was a politically-correct "moronic inferno". (To borrow a phrase from a book by Amis's son, who acknowledged borrowing it from Saul Bellow, who in turn borrowed it from Wyndham Lewis.)<br /><br />As always, thank you very much for visiting, and for your thoughts.Stephen Pentzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14882220887712092005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5010170380967519230.post-87566625747517404732013-03-20T13:47:31.408-07:002013-03-20T13:47:31.408-07:00Many thanks for this beautiful poem. I love Larki...Many thanks for this beautiful poem. I love Larkin, and my favourite poem of his is "High Windows". In the UK, he is becoming respectable again after a period of posthumous disgrace resulting from the publication of some racist letters to Kingsley Amis.<br /><br />Alas, the most obvious "indigestible sterility" here in the UK is the continuing wintry weather. This blog is my sole link to Spring...Sam Vegahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05978971199859845931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5010170380967519230.post-41752694694062844772013-03-20T12:36:19.442-07:002013-03-20T12:36:19.442-07:00Mr. Sigler: thank you very much for your thoughts ...Mr. Sigler: thank you very much for your thoughts on the poem. As for deprivation: I think that Larkin was very good both at conveying it and at humanizing it, and suggesting that there is still fullness to be found (momentarily, at least).<br /><br />I appreciate hearing from you again.Stephen Pentzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14882220887712092005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5010170380967519230.post-83759068675504964852013-03-20T05:54:31.836-07:002013-03-20T05:54:31.836-07:00What a well-wrought, lovely poem - it's rare f...What a well-wrought, lovely poem - it's rare for poems to mix so effectively the essential and the personal. It's like he's saying to Elliott: "you think you're dreary!" I get what you mean by deprivation - that is where the beauty resides in this poem. It also has the best water daughter rhyme I've ever seen. Ciao.WAShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10403669322174979974noreply@blogger.com