Beyond 1963
It's usually impossible to read about the British poet Philip Larkin without coming across his famous stanza from "Annus Mirabilis":
Sexual intercourse beganOver on Slate Macalester College Professor Stephen Burt takes an informed look at Larkin on the occasion of the publication of a new edition of Larkin's Collected Poems, without even mentioning "Annus Mirabilis": "The poet of dirty words."
In nineteen sixty-three
(which was rather late for me) -
Between the end of the "Chatterley" ban
And the Beatles' first LP.
