Without Walls: J'accuse Philip Larkin

In March 1993 Terry Eagleton took on the late Philip Larkin and found him to be a "death-obsessed, emotionally-retarded misanthropist who had the impudence to generalise his own fears and failings to the way things are". Eagleton challenged Larkin's reputation as a poet, stating that he was sexist, racist, put an end to modernist experiment and set poetry back decades.