Sunday, February 22, 2009

Philip Larkin, “Church Going”

Recommended by Andrew Sullivan here. Midcentury use of form at its best; curiously, both metre and rhyme announce themselves more explicitly as the poem continues. "Frowsty"="fusty" (OED) from Old French frouste, ruinous, decayed. Usages like that, plus the form, make one want to read metapoetically.

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