Which poet, an admirer of Lawrence from an early age, wrote in a letter that after reading Sons and Lovers he felt ready to die?
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Correct answer: D. Philip Larkin
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Philip Larkin, aged nineteen, wrote to his friend Jim Sutton (1942) of his rapture at Sons and Lovers; Lawrence remained his lifelong idol.
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