| Sumario: | The article focuses on Philip Larkin, an distinguished English writer. He died in 1985. Even before his death he had come to be regarded in Britain as a kind of national institution. His poems were the most widely quoted and anthologized of any Englishman whose career fell within the second half of the twentieth century. Larkin's mature poetry is seldom obscure, but it is always more complicated than either his admirers or detractors generally wish to believe. Having got over his adolescent infatuation with the poetry of W.B. Yeats and W.H.Auden, Larkin had programmatically opposed the international "Modernism" that had seemed to carry everything before it during the first half of the twentieth century.
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