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'.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Philip Larkin set this up brilliantly in “An Arundel Tomb.” Want more columns like ... Larkin concludes the poem with these stunning lines: “Time has transfigured them into / Untruth.

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 ...

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 ...