Philip Larkin Quote

The quickest way to start a punch-up between two British literary critics is to ask them what they think of the poems of Sir John Betjeman


introduction to Collected Poems (1971)


The quickest way to start a punch-up between two British literary critics is to ask them what they think of the poems of Sir John Betjeman

The quickest way to start a punch-up between two British literary critics is to ask them what they think of the poems of Sir John Betjeman

The quickest way to start a punch-up between two British literary critics is to ask them what they think of the poems of Sir John Betjeman

The quickest way to start a punch-up between two British literary critics is to ask them what they think of the poems of Sir John Betjeman