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 In a different poem by this author, the speaker is eventually told he is “too selfish, withdrawn, / And easily bored to love.”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 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 almost truth.” This poet of “Aubade” wrote a poem describing how “man hands on misery to man,” and advising the reader to not “have any kids yourself.” For 10 points, name this librarian and poet who wrote “This Be the Verse.” ■END■
ANSWER: Philip Larkin [or Philip Arthur Larkin] (The unnamed poems are “Faith Healing,” “Wild Oats” and“An Arundel Tomb.”)
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