Philip Larkin Context 101
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Did Larkin every marry?
No
Who was Larkins literary influence?
Thomas Hardy
What was Larkins Job?
worked as a librarian at the university of hull, queens and belfast.
when was Larkin born?
1922 in conventry
Who did Larkin’s father admire?
Hitler
Where did Larkin study?
Oxford
Who did Larkin have relationships with?
Monica Joan’s she later destroyed 30 volumes of his diaries and private papers
What kind of Music did Larkin like?
He was a fan of Jazz 1961 became a jazz critic of the Daily Telegraph
Who did Larkin have a relationship with while working at hull?
Maeve Brennan
Which political party with Larkin support?
Tory
What was Larkin?
He was an Existentialist
What was the Movement?
Writers sharing a common purpose and a reaction against modernism
Who were the modernist poem?
Dylan Thomas and WB Yeats
Who coined the movement term?
The Movement was a term coined in 1945 by the spectator journalist J D Scott
Which other author wrote about inequalities in England?
Kingsley Amis
When did WW2 rationing end?
1945
What was Larkin referred to as?
The welfare state poet
What was the News Towns Act?
1946 the New Towns Act created new industrial cities increasing urbanisation
When was the London smog?
1952 killed 4,000 people
How much did UK account for world trade?
1950 UK accounted for a quatre of world trade in manufacturing
What did England produce?
Ships coal steel cars textiles
What were the public attiudes?
Victorian attitudes
What was religion like in post ww2?
Secular
Where did Larkin get his title ‘The Less Deceived’
Ophelia’s line ‘I was the more deceived’
What was coventry known for?
1940’s car manufacturing
When was Latest Face written
1951 Winfried Arnet
Who was If, My Darling written about?
Monica Joans
What is At Grass?
Based of film with the same name 1950
Who wrote Look Back In Anger?
1956 John Osborn
What was Larkins Religon?
Anglican agnostic
Where did Larkin get is influences of ‘Absences’ from?
French Symbolists like Charles Baudelaire