THE LESS DECEIVED - LARKIN CONTEXT
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when was the less deceived published?
1955
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when was larkin born?
1922, year of high modernism
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what collection came before the less decieved?
the north ship, 1945
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what two collections followed the less deceived?
the whitsun weddings, 1964 and high windows, 1974
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what was larkin's nickname?
the hermit of hull
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when did larkin die?
1985 of cancer
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who coined the term 'the movement'?
j.d. scott, 1954
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when did larkin arrive in hull?
1955
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where did larkin work and for how long?
the brynmoor jones library, more than 30 years
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where did larkin work before moving to hull?
queens, belfast
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how did andrew motion prescribe larkin's influences?
larkin's poetry is a continual debate between romantic yearning and disillusioned pragmatism - 1994
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how did jean hartley prescribe larkin's themes? (and who was she)
a piquant mixture of lyricism and discontent - wife of larkin's publisher george
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t.s. eilot's hypothesis on poetry?
it must be difficult
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kingsley amis' most famous novel?
lucky jim
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hardy's quote about his faith
churchy - almost too high churchy
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wordsworth line which at grass mimics
the inward eye is the bliss of solitude - i wandered lonely as a cloud, 1815
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when were larkin's letters to monica jones published?
2011 - letters to monica
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who is lines about?
winifred arnott
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what was larkin's other poem about a dying animal?
the mower, 1979
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which romantic poet had a poem titled spring?
william blake, songs of innocence