Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
“Down Cemetery Road,” a profile of Philip Larkin by John Betjeman. This program was originally telecast by the BBC in 1964 as an episode of Monitor:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)
“There was a mercy in the world which you might not at first recognize. If you just kept on not getting what you wanted, you would stop wanting it in any painful way. It would be all right. You would learn to like what you had.”
James Gould Cozzens, The Last Adam
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