AS poetry- jennings and larkin
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- "Tempermentally and geographically remote"- The Times
- "you write because you have to"- larkin
- "my life is as simple as I can make it"- larkin
- " I don't know how anybody ever believed any of tha stuff"- larkin on the bible
- an atheist - did not believe in an after life or God but feared death greatly
- "refused all invitations to be interviewed"- inclusive
- an introverted character, even from a young age at school
- full time job at Hull library and also Queen's University Belfast
- has answers in interviews are never detailed and give little to none about who he truly is
- Margaret Welden, "it would be disastrous to confuse Larkin with his narrator"
- "interested with nature"- Andrew Motion
- "died at aged 63- his biggest fears made real ( aubade and dockery and son relate well to this"
- part of the movement- believed in discussing vast concepts but confining them to traditional form
- Oxford uni graduate- well established academically
- believed he could not finish a poem until he had finished the last line
- Monica Jones- "conflicted between wanting to be alone"- A VERY SEROUS RELATIONSHIP
- he had affairs and long relationships but could never settle, "the greatest enemy of art is the pram in the hall"- he did not beleive in conventional marriage and family as he thought it would disrupt his art greatly
- "unhappiness provokes a…
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