Poets looked to the historical canon – I haven’t included it here, but surely Larkin’s An Arundel Tomb is the greatest post-war poem to be inspired by a single work of art. But more often Modernist ...

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 ...

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 ...

True, it is really about death, but so are all the best love poems. The ratio of death to ... of the married love he never attained, "An Arundel Tomb", ends with the grudging: "Our almost-instinct ...

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 ...

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 ...

True, it really is about death, but so are all the best love poems. The ratio of death to ... of the married love he never attained, An Arundel Tomb, ends with the grudging: ''Our almost-instinct ...

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 ...