Larkin and The Movement

This short BBC documentary, helps to put Larkin in the context of The Movement and explains his poetry was a new voice and diction for the 20th Century.

It's part of a series and if you are interested, watch all 4:

Welcome New Bloggers!

Welcome to the new generation of bloggers recording their thoughts and reactions to Larkin's poems. I hope you will read each others' posts and comment on them if you find them useful or have anything you want to add.  You might even want to offer alternative opinions and interpretations on theirs.  After all this is exaclty what AO3(ii) is all about - being aware of other readers' interpretations!
First - here is the link to the 1960s programme about Larkin "Down Cemetery Road" which you have doodled about...

Next is a documentary made more recently about Larkin which offers a contemporary perspective on Larkin after his death...

and finally, here are some videos of Larkin reading his own poems.  You might want to add these to your own posts:

An Arundel Tomb:

Afternoons

For Sydney Bechet

The Whitsun Weddings