THIS BE THE LIGHT VERSE: THE ELSEWHERE OF LARKIN’S INFAMOUS POEM
THIS BE THE LIGHT VERSE: THE ELSEWHERE OF LARKIN’S INFAMOUS POEM

Summary/Abstract: This paper discusses how Larkin’s well-known poem “This Be The Verse” has been re-written by four contemporary poets: Maurice Rutherford, Roger McGough, Adrian Mitchell, and Benjamin Zephaniah. Each of them went their own ways: Rutherford domesticated the image, McGough wrote an angry pamphlet, Mitchell turned the meaning upside down, and Zephaniah wrote a piece of propaganda in a postcolonial context.

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