Larkin and Duffy: Context

Question 1

Which city, ruined by the WW2 blitz, did Phillip Larkin go to university in?

Answer 1

Hull

Question 2

Which Sylvia Plath poem inspired Duffy’s ‘Valentine’?

Answer 2

Cut - “my thumb instead of an onion”

Question 3

What did Lisa Jardine call Larkin?

Answer 3

“an easy misogynist”