… Philip Larkin liked his Mum and Dad - The Oldie. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
When I mentioned that I had feared that he would be difficult to talk to and a bit of a miserabilist, he laughed, saying that poems were often written out of unhappiness but that didn’t mean that the poet was in a continuous state of misery. When he was young, he had suffered from a stammer, he told me. I asked him to repeat all this in the interview.
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