Hitchens And Larkin

In the best review I've read so far of Hitch-22 - which I found very hard to put down - is this appreciation by Michael Weiss. Weiss sees consistencies where others less intelligent see contradictions. This passage on Larkin is spot-on:

So far from being 'quintessentially English,' Larkin was a wry and melancholy observer of postwar English anxieties and insecurities. Resentful of how his generation had been made to foot a historic bill that in low moments could seem unworthy of the cost...