Philip Larkin Context
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- Created on: 03-03-19 19:51
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- Larkin Context
- jazz critic
- 'For Sidney Bechet'
- worked as a librarian
- not really influenced by the 'swinging sixties'
- part of The Movement
- rejected modernism
- favoured everyday language
- included John Wain + Kingsley Amis
- seen as pessimistic
- grew up in Coventry
- described childhood as 'boring'
- 1965 = 'The Whitsun Weddings' was published
- never married but had relationships
- 'Wild Oats'
- Ruth Bowman
- Monica Jones
- Maeve Brennan
- Betty Mackereth
- post-war austerity
- lived in Hull for 30 years
- described it as a "dump"
- 'the Hermit of Hull'
- letters published after death
- accused of racism + sexism
- born 1922, died 1985
- jazz critic
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