“He deeply respects Larkin's inconsolability in the face of the surest fact of all, but responds more vividly, in the end, to Yeats's visionary transformations.”
“Ames and Byron are intended as clowns of inconsolability, a kind of country-and-Western Vladimir and Estragon.”
“There was so much we shared: the tone playful, sometimes acid the Pierson jaw, the gab at parties, the inconsolability.”