“Requiem”, above – Robert Louis Stevenson’s self-composed epitaph – provides the title for Philip Larkin’s most famous #poem, “This Be the Verse”. Daniel Bosch compares the two epitaphic fictions in the Paris Review
Whether it's #Morrissey, #PhilipLarkin or #MattHealy the amount white people will bend over backwards to forgive their favourite racists is extraordinary.