The Mower
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title:
The Mower
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The Mower is a poem by British poet Philip Larkin, written on 12 June 1979. It was first published in Humberside, the Hull Literary Club magazine, in Autumn 1979. The poem describes a moment when the speaker accidentally killed a hedgehog with his lawn mower while mowing his lawn. Author Maeve Brennan recalled an earlier incident in which Larkin had deliberately killed a hedgehog with his car, and his guilt about it. She linked that incident with the later poem. Author Sisir Kumar Chatterjee wri
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1979 poem by Philip Larkin
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2011-06-23T04:06:06Z
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2024-09-13T15:23:03Z
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