I listened to Philip Larkin read "The Whitsun Weddings" and heard all kinds of sound relations that my own educated-East Coast pronunciation would never produce. I don't know why this seemed a fresh surprise. Anyway, it was lovely.
I have published four novels and four books of literary criticism; I'm currently at work on a book called FOR THE LOVE OF BROKEN THINGS: MY FATHER, EDWARD GIBBON AND THE RUINS OF ROME. I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
I listened to Philip Larkin read "The Whitsun Weddings" and heard all kinds of sound relations that my own educated-East Coast pronunciation would never produce. I don't know why this seemed a fresh surprise. Anyway, it was lovely.
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