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This poet described an “immense slackening ache” experienced by visitors to a man who directs “God about this eye, that knee.” In a different poem by this author, the speaker is eventually told he is “too selfish, withdrawn, / And easily bored to love.” This poet described death as “The anaesthetic from which none come round” in a poem parodying a medieval French form. Another of this man’s poems (-5[1])considers that “succeeding eyes [began] / To look, not read” at a (*) tomb effigy in Chichester Cathedral. That poem by this writer concludes with an “almost-instinct (10[1])almost truth.” This poet of “Aubade” wrote a poem describing how “man hands on misery to man,” and advising (10[1])the reader to not “have any kids (10[2])yourself.” For 10 points, name this librarian and poet, who wrote “This Be the Verse.” (0[1])■END■

ANSWER: Philip Larkin [or Philip Arthur Larkin] (The unnamed poems are “Faith Healing,” “Wild Oats” and“An Arundel Tomb.”)
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