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Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, / Shaped to the comfort of the last to go / As if to win them back

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Philip Larkin
Age: 63 †
Born: 1922
Born: August 9
Died: 1985
Died: December 2
Critic
Journalist
Librarian
Music Critic
Music Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Coventry
England
UK
Philip Arthur Larkin
Winning
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Left
Home
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