Philip Larkin

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What kind of themes are found in Larkin’s poetry?

Anti-Romantic themes of rootlessness & defeatism

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Two Novels:

Jill 1946

A Girl in Winter 1947

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Larkin edited an important anthology named?

The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse (1973)

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Two collection of Larkin’s verses:

The North Ship (1945) - early

The Less Deceived (1955) - mature

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The title of his collection “The Less Deceived” is an inverse of which Shakespearean character?

Ophelia : “I was the more deceived.”

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‘Church Going’ shows his scepticism with religion. To which collection did the poem belong?

The Less Deceived

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Who said that Larkin’s poetry is a “procedure of objectification & subjection”?

Foucoult

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The Whitsun Wedding shows a train journey from?

Hull to London

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Which poem is about a real-life case of a girl drugged & raped?

Deceptions