John Wain pointed out that Blaise's " sacred " love for Harriet is characterized by " selfishness and possessiveness ", while his erotic " profane " attachment to Emily has " a depth and a purity, in some ways self-forgetfulness ", making a clear moral distinction between the two states impossible.
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The Programme's contribution to contemporary poetry and criticism was outstanding, under producers and presenters such as John Wain, Ludovic Kennedy, George MacBeth and Patrick Dickinson; here it promoted young writers such as Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amis, as well as the " difficult " work of David Jones and Laura Riding.
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And if bits and currents of literary Oxford's past put me off ( such as its taste for fantasy and orthodox Christian theology and political reaction and social exclusivity ), I kept hearing other things about Oxford writers that made me eager to read more Peter Levi, John Wain, Thomas Warton, Joyce Cary, Kingsley Amis _ practically ad infinitum.
