The reaction against Larkin has been unprecedentedly violent as well as unprecedentedly hypocritical, tendentious and smug. Its energy does not, could not derive from literature - it derives from ideology, or from the vaguer promptings of a new ethos. (Martin Amis)

The reaction against Larkin has been unprecedentedly violent as well as unprecedentedly hypocritical, tendentious and smug. Its energy does not, could not derive from literature - it derives from ideology, or from the vaguer promptings of a new ethos.

Martin Amis

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