I'd like to think...that people in pubs would talk about my poems

Philip Larkin
I'd like to think...that people in pubs would talk about...
I'd like to think...that people in pubs would talk about...
I'd like to think...that people in pubs would talk about...
I'd like to think...that people in pubs would talk about...
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 The author and poet Rupert Brooke liked to think that his poems would be discussed and discussed and discussed. He felt that his work was very important and that people with a little more education than you, me, and the rest of the world would agree with him. These people would talk about his work as if "he were a god."

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