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… Dead poet's society | Theatre | The Guardian — Why do playwrights find Philip Larkin so inspiring? (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

It's axiomatic that drama thrives on conflict and Philip Larkin is a mass (unfriendly critics would say a mess) of contradictions. That's why playwrights can't leave him alone. He was a flawed and fallible human being who wrote like a fallen angel.