Contextual info

Larkin

• had tumultuous relationships - never married

• influenced heavily by Thomas Hardy - rejected Modernist poets like Elliot and

• worked quietly away from fame in a library in Hull

• became jazz critic

The Movement:

• Their intention was to redirect the course of English poetry away from the neo-Romantic Symbolist and Imagistic poetry of William Butler Yeats and Dylan Thomas.

• Good poetry, to The Movement group, meant simple, sensuous content and traditional, conventional and dignified form.

• The Movement’s importance is its worldview that took into account Britain’s reduced dominance in world politics as the British Empire was collapsing.