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Episode: Love and Death: Self-Elegies by Plath, Larkin, Hardy and more
Description: Podcast: Close Readings (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Love and Death: Self-Elegies by Plath, Larkin, Hardy and morePub date: 2025-05-12Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationPhilip Larkin was terrified of death from an early age; Thomas Hardy contemplated what the neighbours would say after he had gone; and Sylvia Plath imagined her own death in vivid and controversial ways. The genre of self-elegy, in which poets have reflected on their own passing, is a small but eloquent one in the history of...