Philip Larkin: is this poet just too weird for Horror/Fantasy/Science Fiction/Weird? Since the French Revolution, the radical has become the default setting of the intellectual, especially in Arts and Letters. The “conservative social order” has religion, but the “far more complex liberal worldview” has poetry and art. The early 19th century Romantics were “radical” individualists,” in mid-19th century France ”radical” art and poetry were [...]
