Entertainment 15-10-2003 who: Philip Larkin what: Is the greatest poet of the past 50 years, says survey when: Yesterday snippet: The "middle-aged misanthrope with too pronounced a taste for pornography" kicked former laureate Ted Hughes into second place, reports The Guardian, after Larkin`s `The Whitsun Weddings` topped the Poetry Society`s 50th anniversary poll. Meanwhile The Telegraph notes that Gwyneth Paltrow`s `Sylvia`, a new film of the life of tragic poet Sylvia Plath, has been slammed in the US as a "terrible, poorly executed movie" which would attract "a firestorm of criticism". [... more]

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