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Egyptian writer Taha Hussein


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File photo of English poet Philip Larkin. (Asharq Al-Awsat)


Philip Larkin: Poet of Solitude and Old Age

Philip Larkin: Poet of Solitude and Old Age

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The pre-eminent English poet Philip Larkin (1922-1985) is not unknown in the Arab world. A few years ago Cairo’s Supreme Council of Culture published an anthology of Larkin’s poetry; this collection is translated and forwarded by poet and...