Larkin context Flashcards
(26 cards)
What goverment was brought in after the 1950s?
Labour
What did the labour goverment want to implement? and how did Larkin feel about it?
wanted equality - Larkin was conservative and was worried about the post-war optimism
what was created in the 1950s?
NHS
what was still being implemented into the 1950s’ after WW2?
rationing
What was Britain?
secular
What was there a threat of in 1950s Britain?
nuclear war
What was there an emergence of in 1950s Britain?
the ‘swinging 60s’ and liberal ideals
What was created in the 1950s that increased women’s freedoms?
the contraceptive pill
__ vs optimism
austerity
What did Larkin work as?
A librarian at hull university
What did Larkin reject twice?
poet laurette
How did Larkin see his parents marriage?
‘bloody hell’
Who was he briefly engaged too?
Ruth Bowman
Who did he have a miscarriage with?
Patsy Strang
Where did Larkin live?
Belfast and hull
What were his hobbies?
Photography and Jazz - wrote jazz reviews for the telegraph
What was Larkin described as?
The hermit of hull
How did Larkin feel towards religion?
Absolute balls
What was Larkin referred too (racism)
‘casual, habitual racist, and an easy misogynist’
Who did Larkin give his money too when he died?
RSPCA
What group was Larkin a part of?
Movement
Who did the movement hate?
Modernist
What characterised the modernists?
Wrote abstract experiments and romantic poetry
What did the movement write for?
‘the man at the bus stop’
