Tag Archives: Philip Larkin

Notre Dame’s Meaning for Non-Believers

Wednesday Non-believers as well as believers may feel the urge to send up a prayer of thanks that Notre Dame’s basic structure appears to have survived the fire. The world-wide concern over the catastrophe indicates that the cathedral was not only meaningful to Christians. A friend alerted me to a Fleda Brown poem that helps […]

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“Sexual Intercourse Began in 1963”

Philip Larkin describes how the Beatles changed Britain’s social mores fifty years ago.

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Beating Obama into a Steel Spike

For strength Obama can think of himself as Carl Sandburg’s steel spike.

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Hitchens: A Life Lived in Literature

Even in his final days, Christopher Hitchens was having active discussions about novels, poems and plays. He understood how much was at stake in literature.

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Shine On, Harvest Moon

Philip Larkin has written a fine poem about harvest moons, one of which we experienced last night.

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