Who wrote the lines asking whether poets should 'bicycle-pump the human heart / Or squash it flat', and concluding that love 'is apart from life'?
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Correct answer: B. Kingsley Amis
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Kingsley Amis, 'A Bookshop Idyll' (A Case of Samples, 1956).
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