hardcover. Condition: Fine in Dustjacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine First Edition. Fourth Printing. New York. 1989. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374126232. 330 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Jack Harrison. Photo by Phil Sayer. keywords: Europe England Literature Poetry World Literature. DESCRIPTION - One of the best-known and best-loved poets of the English-speaking world, Philip Larkin had only a small number of poems published during his lifetime. Collected Poems brings together not only all his books--The North Ship, The Less Deceived, The Whitsun Weddings, and High Windows--but also his uncollected poems from 1940 to 1984. This new edition reflects Larkin's own ordering for his poems and is the first collection to present the body of his work with the organization he preferred. Preserving everything he published in his lifetime, the new Collected Poems is an indispensable contribution to the legacy of an icon of twentieth-century poetry. This is the complete collection of Larkin's available poetry, based on the carefully preserved and dated notebooks and typescripts left by the poet.

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Title: Collected Poems
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Publication Date: 1989
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0374126232
ISBN 13: 9780374126230
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Printing: 4th Printing
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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A collection of many published and previously unpublished works of the English poet

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Thwaite has gathered all the poems Larkin wrote between 1946 and 1985, the year of his death; he also includes a generous selection of work written earlier, before Larkin found his characteristic voice. In all, there are some 240 poems, 83 of them never published before. The unpublished work comes from every period of Larkin's career and increases by half the number of poems in his canon. The poet we now have is considerably more prolific than the one who issued only three small, mature collections in his lifetime. With or without the new poems, Larkin is a major postwar British writer, and this is the best available collection of his poetry. An essential addition to both academic and general libraries.
- Michael Hennessy, Southwest Texas State Univ., San Marcos
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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