The footnote refers to “An Arundel Tomb”—widely regarded as one of Larkin’s finest poems—and contains a provocative remark about that the poem’s celebrated, controversial, closing line ...

“What will survive of us is love,” writes Philip Larkin in his remarkably unsentimental poem “An Arundel Tomb.” He is reflecting on the recumbent stone effigy over the grave of a couple buried long ...

But such liberation is not straightforward. In what is probably Larkin’s most famous poem, “An Arundel Tomb”, the apparent persistence of love, symbolised in the joined hands of the tomb figures, ...

This seemed to match Philip Larkin's haunting poem about the lovers buried side by side in 'Arundel Tomb'.

Two hundred years on, we’re no closer to agreeing what the highly symbolic poem might mean ... Utterson’s 1817 sketch of the Tomb of the Earl of Arundel in Chichester Cathedral, with effigy ...

Poems can rarely be chased back to a single ... usually associated with Larkin’s An Arundel Tomb, deserves to be recognised as part of the heady mix that produced a lover’s complaint which ...

“What will survive of us is love,” wrote Philip Larkin in his poem “An Arundel Tomb.” That line came to mind recently when I walked past a tiny coffee shop in Bloomsbury. Between 1968 and 1982, it was ...

Review: In Shorts (Two performances by Geraldine Hughes and Jimmy Kerr). In the astonishing poem An Arundel Tomb, Phillip Larkin wrote, “What will survive of us is love.” He didn’t mean to ...

Wilson concludes that it is Larkin's poems, not his faults, that have survived. Featuring readings of his work by Larkin himself, including the greatness of The Whitsun Weddings, Arundel Tomb ...

Howard Jacobson’s new novel What Will Survive of Us takes its title from Philip Larkin’s poem An Arundel Tomb. In that poem, Larkin wisely and emphatically tells us that, despite our best ...

EARLY POEMS AND JUVENILIA BY PHILP LARKIN ... Nagging at the back of one's mind when reading Aubade or For Sidney Bechet or An Arundel Tomb there is a sense of taint, of masterpieces smeared ...