Tony Harrison Context
- Created by: harriet.campion
- Created on: 13-02-19 11:21
View mindmap
- Tony Harrison
- Poetry
- Noted for outspoken political views
- Talks of controversial issues
- Race, class and power
- Taught in Nigeria and Prague
- Obsessed with conveying a message
- Education and career
- Attended Leeds Grammar School
- Read classics at Leeds University
- Work has been performed at The Royal National Theatre
- Britain's leading film and theatre poet
- Took a diploma in Linguistics
- Childhood
- Born in Leeds in 1937
- Grew up working class
- Became more educated in articulacy and culture
- Background
- Often said that gaining the expressiveness in language made him lose his ability to communicate with his parents
- Told by a teacher he wouldn't get anywhere because of his Yorkshire accent
- Mocked him - "Shakespeare would give your character the common prose"
- Poetry
Comments
No comments have yet been made