In one of his poems, he wonders "if anyone looked at me, forty years back/ And thought, That'll be the life.
In one of his poems, he wonders "if anyone looked at me, forty years back/ And thought, That'll be the life." This writer, who declined the Poet Laureateship of his country, collected his musical criticisms in the book All What Jazz. The narrator imagines the life of his apartment's former tenant in "Mr. Bleaney," and one of his most famous poems notes that "what will survive of us is love," "An Arundel Tomb." Name, for 10 points, this British poet and jazz critic whose best-known works include "The Whitsun Weddings" and "Annus Mirabalis," as well as "This Be the Verse" in which he wrote "they fuck you up, your mum and dad."
In one of his poems, he wonders "if anyone looked at me, forty years back/ And thought, That'll be the life.
Philip {Larkin}