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I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER by PHILIP LARKIN

Poet Analysis

First Line: COMING UP ENGLAND BY A DIFFERENT LINE
Last Line: I SUPPOSE IT'S NOT THE PLACE'S FAULT,' I SAID. %'NOTHING, LIKE SOMETHING, HAPPENS ANYWHERE.'
Subject(s): NOSTALGIA;

Poem Sources:

THE FABER BOOK OF POEMS AND PLACES.
  GRIGSON, GEOFFREY (ED.)
  (1980)
 
ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN POETRY.
  WAIN, JOHN (ED.)
  (1963)
 
THE NEW OXFORD BOOK OF ENGLISH LIGHT VERSE.
  AMIS, KINGSLEY (ED.)
  (1978)
 
THE BLOODAXE BOOK OF 20TH CENTURY POETRY; FROM BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
  LONGLEY, EDNA (ED.)
  (2000)
 
COLLECTED POEMS. ANTHONY THWAITE (ED.)
  LARKIN, PHILIP
  (1989)
 



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