Collected poems - Hardcover

LARKIN, Philip

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ISBN 10: 0571151965 ISBN 13: 9780571151967

Publisher: The Marvell Press & Faber and Faber, 1988

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One of the best-known, best-loved poets of the English-speaking world, Larkin had a relatively small number of poems published during his lifetime. This Collected Poems, which J. D. McClatchy called "a fascinating and indispensable text" in The New York Times Book Review, brings together not only all of Larkin's published verse�€”The North Ship (1945), the pamphlet of XX Poems (1953), The Less Deceived (1955), The Whitsun Weddings (1964), and High Windows (1974)�€”but also a vast selection of his uncollected poetry. A brief Introduction by Anthony Thwaite illuminates both the life and verse of this highly perceptive and deeply acerbic poet, a dour yet witty soul whose brilliant writings so often suggest an ongoing conflict between the traditional and the modern.

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About the Author:

Philip Larkin was born in Coventry in 1922 and was educated at King Henry VIII School, Coventry, and St John's College, Oxford. As well as his volumes of poems, which include The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows, he wrote two novels, Jill and A Girl in Winter, and two books of collected journalism: All What Jazz: A Record Diary, and Required Writing: Miscellaneous Prose. He worked as a librarian at the University of Hull from 1955 until his death in 1985.

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Absences
Administration
After-dinner Remarks: 1
After-dinner Remarks: 2
After-dinner Remarks: 3
After-dinner Remarks: 4
Afternoons
Age
All Catches Alight
Ambulances
And Now The Leaves Suddenly Lose Strength
Annus Mirabilis
Ape Experiment Room
An April Sunday Brings The Snow
Arrival
Arrivals, Departures
An Arundel Tomb
As A War In Years Of Peace
As Bad As A Mile
At Grass
At The Chiming Of Light Upon Sleep
At Thirty-one, When Some Are Rich
Aubade
Autobiography At An Air-station
Autumn
Autumn Has Caught Us In Our Summer Wear
Best Society
Born Yesterday
The Bottle Is Drunk Out By One
Breadfruit
Bridge For The Living
Broadcast
The Building
By Day, A Lifted Study-storehouse
The Card-players
Church Going
Climbing The Hill Within The Deafening Wind
Come Then To Prayers
Coming
Coming At Last To Night's Most Thankful Springs
Compline
Conscript
Continuing To Live
Counting
Cut Grass
The Daily Things We Do
The Dance
The Dancer
Dawn
Days
Dear Charles, My Muse, Asleep Or Dead
The Dedicated
Deep Analysis
Disintegration
Dockery And Son
Dublinesque
Essential Beauty
The Explosion
Faith Healing
Far Out
Fiction And The Reading Public
First Sight
For Sidney Bechet
Forget What Did
Fragment From May
Friday Night In The Royal Station Hotel
Gathering Wood
Going
Going, Going
Good For You, Gavin
Having Grown Up In Shade Of Church And State
He Hears That His Beloved Has Become Engaged
Heads In The Women's Ward
Heaviest Of Flowers, The Head
Here
High Windows
The Hills In Their Recumbent Postures
Homage To A Government
Home Is So Sad
The Horns Of The Morning
Hospital Visits
The House On The Edge Of The Serious Wood
How
How Distant
How To Sleep
I Am Washed Upon A Rock
I Dreamed Of An Out-thrust Arm Of Land
I Have Started To Say
I Put My Mouth
I Remember, I Remember
I See A Girl Dragged By The Wrists
If Grief Could Burn Out
If Hands Could Free You, Heart
If, My Darling
Ignorance
The Importance Of Elsewhere
In Times When Nothing Stood
Is It For Now Or For Always
Kick Up The Fire, And Let The Flames Break Loose
The Large Cool Store
Last Will And Testament
Latest Face
Letter To A Friend About Girls
The Life With A Hole In It
Lift Through The Breaking Day
Like The Train's Beat
Lines On A Young Lady's Photograph Album
The Literary World: 1
The Literary World: 2
The Little Lives Of Earth And Form
Livings: 1
Livings: 2
Livings: 3
The Local Snivels Through The Fields
Long Last
Long Lion Days
Long Roots Moor Summer To Our Side Of Earth
Long Sight In Age
Love
Love Again
Love Songs In Age
Love, We Must Part Now
Maiden Name
Many Famous Feet Have Trod
The March Past
Marriages
Maturity
May Weather
Mcmxiv [1914]
Midsummer Night, 1940
Midwinter Waking
Modesties
Money
The Moon Is Full Tonight
Morning At Last: There In The Snow
Morning Has Spread Again
Mother, Summer, I
The Mower
Mr. Bleaney
Mythological Introduction
Myxomatosis
Naturally The Foundation Will Bear Your Expenses
Negative Indicative
Neurotics
New Eyes Each Year
New Year Poem
Next, Please
Night-music
No Road
None Of The Books Have Time
The North Ship
Nothing Significant Was Really Said
Nothing To Be Said
Nursery Tale
Observation
The Old Fools
On Being Twenty-six
One Man Walking A Deserted Platform
Out In The Lane I Pause
Party Politics
Past Days Of Gales
Pigeons
Places, Loved Ones
Plymouth
Poem About Oxford
Poetry Of Departures
Portrait
Posterity
Pour Away That Youth
Reasons For Attendance
Reference Back
Sad Steps
The School In August
Schoolmaster
Scratch On The Scratch Pad
Self's The Man
Send No Money
Show Saturday
Since The Majority Of Me
Sinking Like Sediment Through The Day
Skin
A Slight Relax Of Air Where Cold Was
So Through That Unripe Day You Bore Your Head
So You Have Been, Despite Parental Ban
Solar
Song: 65 Degrees N
Song: 70 Degrees. Fortunetelling
Song: 75 Degrees. Blizzard
Song: Above 80 Degrees
The Spirit Wooed
Spring
Spring Warning
A Stone Church Damaged By A Bomb
Story
Strangers
Street Lamps
A Study Of Reading Habits
Success Story
Summer Nocturne
Sunny Prestatyn
Sympathy In White Major
Take One Home For The Kiddies
Talking In Bed
Thaw
There Is No Language Of Destruction
This Be The Verse
This Is The First Thing
This Was Your Place Of Birth, This Daytime Palace
Time And Space Were Only Their Disguises
To A Very Slow Air
To Failure
To My Wife
To Put One Brick Upon Another
To The Sea
To Write One Song, I Said
Toads
Toads Revisited
Tops
Traumerei
The Trees
Triple Time
Two Guitar Pieces: 1
Two Guitar Pieces: 2
Two Portraits Of Sex: 1. Oils
Two Portraits Of Sex: 2. Dry-point
Ugly Sister
Ultimatum
Under A Splendid Chestnut Tree
Unfinished Poem
Vers De Societe
The View
Waiting For Breakfast, While She Brushed Her Hair
Wants
Water
We See The Spring Breaking Across Rough Stone
Wedding-wind
Whatever Happened?
When First We Faced, And Touching Showed
When The Night Puts Twenty Veils
When The Russian Tanks Roll Westward
The Whitsun Weddings
Who Called Love Conquering
Who Whistled For The Wind, That It Should Break
Why Did I Dream Of You Last Night?
Wild Oats
Winter
Winter Nocturne
The Winter Palace
Wires
Within The Dream You Said
A Writer
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder�

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