..) There are some pieces I hate very much indeed”. (2001, 50) He finds himself in a time in which the poetry seems to move towards a model that Lodge himself characterizes like “anti-modernist, readily and realistic” (1989, 119). In its beginnings, Larkin, along with Kingsley Amis, John Wain, Thom Gunn, D. J. Enright, John Holloway, Donald Davie and Elizabeth Jennings, constitute the poetic group that would denominate The Movement, and that appeared in society in 1956 with a titled anthology. If we make case to the interview that John Haffenden does to Larkin in 1981, there is no doubt that he admired Eliot (Larkin 2001, 52), although at two concrete moments he distancing radically of him: When Larkin mentions that life and work always go united (2001, 49), and when he affirms sharply that poems don’t come from other poems, they come
1 Elfe mainitakse, nii heledaid kui ka tumedaid, ja Alfheim, nende kodu, on mõnikord kirjeldatud kui ühte üheksast maailmast. 2 “The first, beings of the human race, but endowed with powers beyond those usually allotted to men, whom we shall term FAYS, or FAIRIES OF ROMANCE. The second, those little beings of the popular creeds, whose descent we propose to trace from /…./ northern mythology, and whom we shall denominate ELVES or POPULAR FAIRIES” (Keightley 1850:13) 8 Tänapäeva eesti inimese kujutlus haldjast ehk kes haldjas on olnud ja kelleks ta on saanud fay’ks või fairy’ks (inglise k) (Keightley 1850:7). Aja jooksul ahenes sõnade tähendus ning nad hakkasid märkima naissoost isikuid (võrdluseks prantsuse k femme), kellel on üleloomulikud võimed.
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