One of his poems mentions "Postmen like doctors" who "go from house to house," and begins "I work all day, and get half-drunk at night," while in another, two stone figures prove "our almost instinct is almost true: What will survive of us is love.
The title of a play by Patrick Garland about this author's work, An Enormous Yes, comes from this author's poem "For Sydney Bechet." He used the pseudonym "Brunette Coleman" to write Michaelmas Term at St. Bride's and the poem sequence "Sugar and Spice," both of which are contained in Trouble at Widow Gables and Other Fictions. He wrote about John Kemp, a young Oxford student who develops an imaginary sister to help him adjust, in his novel Jill. One of his poems mentions "Postmen like doctors" who "go from house to house," and begins "I work all day, and get half-drunk at night," while in another, two stone figures prove "our almost instinct is almost true: What will survive of us is love." Those poems appear in his collections The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows. For 10 points, name this author of "Aubade" and "An Arundel Tomb" who wrote "They fuck you up your mum and dad" in "This Be the Verse."
The title of a play by Patrick Garland about this author's work, An Enormous Yes, comes from this author's poem "For Sydney Bechet."
Philip {Larkin}