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There's much in the elegiac tone of this book that reminds me of Philip Larkin's collection All What Jazz?
(One thinks of Philip Larkin's poem about a religion based on water: "And I should raise in the east/ A glass of water/ Where any-angled light/ Would congregate endlessly."
While Miller can't write like Larkin, his nostalgia project is a more responsible one.
References Boyd 1974; Brown 1978; Bunting 1964, 1974; De Leon 1982; Graham 1991; Romero and Larkin 1994; Weigle and White 1988; West 1988
Under fuck up we have added the well-known opening lines to Philip Larkin's poem This be the Verse, the only use of fuck to be regularly found in dictionaries of quotations: They fuck you up, your mum and dad.