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Date Posted: 16:51:12 10/12/07 Fri
Author: Arnold Nestler
Subject: Re: On Chesil Beach-Beatles & Stones
In reply to: Colin Hendry 's message, "On Chesil Beach-Beatles & Stones" on 16:07:31 10/08/07 Mon

Further evidence from:

Think of England
A Review by Christopher Hitchens

It's perhaps more than a pleasing coincidence that the era is so well matched to the words of a famous poem by Philip Larkin, who for different reasons is now widely, if uneasily, accepted as contemporary England's national poet. His "Annus Mirabilis" opens like this:

Sexual intercourse began
In nineteen sixty-three
(Which was rather late for me) --
Between the end of the Chatterley ban
And the Beatles' first LP.

It's possible from internal evidence to put the date of On Chesil Beach at mid-July 1962 -- in other words, immediately before this crucial cusp.

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