Philip Larkin, 'Here' (1961)

Some of the students wanted to know the poem I quoted at the start of the 'Consumption' lecture. Here is the first verse: Cheap suits, red kitchen-ware, sharp shoes, iced lollies, electric mixers, toasters, washers, driers.Philip Larkin is critical of the consumer society. He was one in a long line of elitists who are worried about encroaching materialism in 1960s British society