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Angry Men, Young and Old

Angry Men, Young and Old

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May 15, 2020
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Few people remember the “angry young men" because they turned into that rather more pathetic species: angry old men. Philip Larkin drained his poetic resources and spent his last years of life in a fog of alcohol and existential fear. Kingsley Amis became something of a club bore, finding redemption in his nostalgic late novel The Old Devils and becomin…

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