The Collected Poems of Philip Larkin

There are alot of books on the market about how to read in a hoity-toity, analytical fashion (Mortimer Adler's How To Read A Book, Thomas C. Foster's How To Read Literature Like A Professor, etc., etc.). I think that these books are really dumb. The purpose of a book--whether it's The Berenstein Bears or James Joyce--is to give pleasure. Insofar as the …