ACCT 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Thom Gunn, Philip Larkin, Robert Conquest
9 Aug 2020
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British Literary History 12 - Literature after 1945 (1)
Single Choice: b is correct
Multiple Choice: b and d are correct
Britain after 1945
⎯ Second World War left most countries ruined and broke
⎯ No infrastructure in many places
⎯ Food had to be rationed up until the 50s so even longer as on Germany
⎯ Investements in the social state started to grow: health care and welfare
programmes
⎯ The five giants (five huge areas of problems)
− Want → Social seciurity system for jobless and old people
− disease → health care system
− ignorance → school reforms (leaving age of 15 and many new universities)
− Squalor → sponsored homes
− Idleness → state aimed at full employment
The vice roy Lord Mountbatten was sent to India by the crown
India and Pakistan gain their independence shortly afterwards
⎯ In The longer run after war Britain goes into economic decline
⎯ Labour regulations are seen as one of the big factors: So a new
government under Maggie Tatcher imposed many deregulations
to the financial market
⎯ With this stagnating economy many projects can’t be paid for
➢ With more recent works its harder to tell which one is the big new thing
➢ There are many parallel movements so it’s hard to define which is the one common
trade
➢ Literature tends to get more diverse
Poetry in the 1950s: “The Movement”
⎯ The Movement is a tendency towards traditionalism in form
⎯ They say the poetry of the 40s as excessive as it had to many words
⎯ Term coined by J.D. Scott in 1954
⎯ Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, D.J. Enright, John Wain Elizabeth Jennings, Thom
Gunn, Robert Conquest
⎯ D.J. Enright (ed.), Poets of the 1950s (1955) Robert Conquest (ed.), New Lines (1956)
Document Summary
British literary history 12 - literature after 1945 (1) Second world war left most countries ruined and broke. Food had to be rationed up until the 50s so even longer as on germany. Investements in the social state started to grow: health care and welfare programmes. The five giants (five huge areas of problems) Want social seciurity system for jobless and old people. Idleness state aimed at full employment ignorance school reforms (leaving age of 15 and many new universities) The vice roy lord mountbatten was sent to india by the crown. India and pakistan gain their independence shortly afterwards. In the longer run after war britain goes into economic decline. Labour regulations are seen as one of the big factors: so a new government under maggie tatcher imposed many deregulations to the financial market. With this stagnating economy many projects can"t be paid for. With more recent works its harder to tell which one is the big new thing.
