In his Introduction to The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse (1973), Philip Larkin…
Larkin privileges Hardy as the major native modern poet in this selection and its introduction, rather than adopting an Eliot-centred modernist history. Yeats and Lawrence…
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In his Introduction to The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse (1973), Philip Larkin
underlines the importance of a native tradition with __________ seen as the major poet of
the Modern Period.
Answer and explanation
Correct answer C
Larkin privileges Hardy as the major native modern poet in this selection and its introduction, rather than adopting an Eliot-centred modernist history. Yeats and Lawrence are not the singled-out answer.
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