The author of "An Arundel Tomb", one of his best known poems comes from the collection High Windows and notes "they fuck you up, your mom and dad".
Stan Smith divides this poet's work into two periods, with "Going" and "Wedding Wind" chosen as two representative poems from the later style. He notes that if he were called in to construct a religion, he would make liberal use of the titlar "Water" in another poem. Looking out the window while "Groping back to bed after a piss" inspires wistful thoughts in this man's "Sad Steps". In another poem concludes that "Our almost-instinct almost true: What will survive of us is love" while observing the titular resting place of the "earl and countess." The narrator of another poem by this author watches "a couple of kids," and thinks "he's fucking her and she's taking pills or wearing a diaphragm." The author of "An Arundel Tomb", one of his best known poems comes from the collection High Windows and notes "they fuck you up, your mom and dad". For 10 points, identify this 20th century British poet of "This Be the Verse".
Stan Smith divides this poet's work into two periods, with "Going" and "Wedding Wind" chosen as two representative poems from the later style.
Philip Larkin