Philip Larkin (1922-1985) was an English poet. He was offered, but declined, the position of Poet Laureate in 1984, following the death of Sir John Betjeman.

His poems are replete with near rhymes, slant rhymes, proximate rhymes, or whatever you'd like to call them.

He is reputed to have said: "Originality is being different from oneself, not others".

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