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Larkin Context
Biography
Born 9th August 1922 in Coventry, home educated until the age of 8, left school with distinctions in English and History, read English at St Johns College Oxford starting in 1940
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RELATIONSHIPS - 1922 - Mother Eva Larkin --- 1944-1950 Ruth Bowman ---1951-1955 Patsy Strang --- 1951-1954 Winifred Arnott --- 1950 onwards Monica Jones
Literary Context
The Movement
Writers - Phillip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, Donald Alfred Davie, E.J Enright, John Barrington Wain, Elizabeth Jennings
Tone of The Movement - Anti romantic - promoting order and form rather than passion
Promoting moderation
Witty
Rational and unsentimental
Sardonic, mocking or scornful
Anti bohemian, resisting over dramatized poetic persona
Provincial - set in countryside and suburbs
W.B Yeats (1865-1939)
Irish poet, considered a giant of 20th century poetry
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Poetry was more formally constructed, he used metre and stanzas and rhyme schemes
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