We’re In The Age Of The “Superpoet”
Now that a version of the Warholian vision has been realized and everyone is famous for a second, it shouldn’t surprise me that the very greatest writers now also have to be celebrities. How else to account for this article on Philip Larkin, which refers to him as a “superpoet”? It’s worth the cringe at the term in order to get to Larkin reading his poems, which clinking on that article’s link does.