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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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