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Vernon Watkins : Ballad of the Mari Lwyd, The

'Before the meeting, Larkin had no detailed knowledge of Watkins's work - what he had read, including the newly published "Ballad of the Mari Lwyd", seemed to him too full of symbols, too arty, too removed from the recognizably modern world described by Auden.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Larkin      Print: Book

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