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Larkin

Proper noun

Meaning

A surname.

A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Alabama.

A township in Nobles County, Minnesota.

Former name of Centerville, Shasta County, California.

A charter township in Midland County, Michigan.

A suburb of Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin. Lawrence Durrell

Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull. Alan Bennett

The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged. Robert Morgan

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet. Robert Morgan

The reaction against Larkin has been unprecedentedly violent as well as unprecedentedly hypocritical, tendentious and smug. Its energy does not, could not derive from literature - it derives from ideology, or from the vaguer promptings of a new ethos. Martin Amis

Ten years later, Larkin is now something like a pariah, or an untouchable. Martin Amis

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