Collected poems

Collected poems

Philip Larkin

Book - 2003

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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003, 1988.
Language
English
Main Author
Philip Larkin (-)
Other Authors
Anthony Thwaite (-)
Edition
1st American ed
Physical Description
xiii, 218 p.
Bibliography
Includes index.
ISBN
9780374529208
  • Introduction
  • Acknowledgements
  • The North Ship
  • I. 'All catches alight'
  • II. 'This was your place of birth, this daytime palace'
  • III. 'The moon is full tonight'
  • IV. Dawn
  • V. Conscript
  • VI. 'Kick up the fire, and let the flames break loose'
  • VII. 'The horns of the morning'
  • VIII. Winter
  • IX. 'Climbing the hill within the deafening wind'
  • X. 'Within the dream you said'
  • XI. Night-Music
  • XII. 'Like the train's beat'
  • XIII. 'I put my mouth'
  • XIV. Nursery Tale
  • XV. The Dancer
  • XVI. 'The bottle is drunk out by one'
  • XVII. 'To write one song, I said'
  • XVIII. 'If grief could burn out'
  • XIX. Ugly Sister
  • XX. 'I see a girl dragged by the wrists'
  • XXI. 'I dreamed of an out-thrust arm of land'
  • XXII. 'One man walking a deserted platform'
  • XXIII. 'If hands could free you, heart'
  • XXIV. 'Love, we must part now: do not let it be'
  • XXV. 'Morning has spread again'
  • XXVI. 'This is the first thing'
  • XXVII. 'Heaviest of flowers, the head'
  • XXXVIII. 'Is it for now or for always'
  • XXIX. 'Pour away that youth'
  • XXX. 'So through that unripe day you bore your head'
  • XXXI. The North Ship
  • XXXII. 'Waiting for breakfast, while she brushed her hair'
  • The Less Deceived
  • Lines on a Young Lady's Photograph Album
  • Wedding-Wind
  • Places, Loved Ones
  • Coming
  • Reasons for Attendance
  • Dry-Point
  • Next, Please
  • Going
  • Wants
  • Maiden Name
  • Born Yesterday
  • Whatever Happened?
  • No Road
  • Wires
  • Church Going
  • Age
  • Myxomatosis
  • Toads
  • Poetry of Departures
  • Triple Time
  • Spring
  • Deceptions
  • I Remember, I Remember
  • Absences
  • Latest Face
  • If, My Darling
  • Skin
  • Arrivals, Departures
  • At Grass
  • The Whitsun Weddings
  • Here
  • Mr Bleaney
  • Nothing To Be Said
  • Love Songs in Age
  • Naturally the Foundation will Bear Your Expenses
  • Broadcast
  • Faith Healing
  • For Sidney Bechet
  • Home is so Sad
  • Toads Revisited
  • Water
  • The Whitsun Weddings
  • Self's the Man
  • Take One Home for the Kiddies
  • Days
  • MCMXIV
  • Talking in Bed
  • The Large Cool Store
  • A Study of Reading Habits
  • As Bad as a Mile
  • Ambulances
  • The Importance of Elsewhere
  • Sunny Prestatyn
  • First Sight
  • Dockery and Son
  • Ignorance
  • Reference Back
  • Wild Oats
  • Essential Beauty
  • Send No Money
  • Afternoons
  • An Arundel Tomb
  • High Windows
  • To the Sea
  • Sympathy in White Major
  • The Trees
  • Livings
  • Forget What Did
  • High Windows
  • Friday Night in the Royal Station Hotel
  • The Old Fools
  • Going, Going
  • The Card-Players
  • The Building
  • Posterity
  • Dublinesque
  • Homage to a Government
  • This Be The Verse
  • How Distant
  • Sad Steps
  • Solar
  • Annus Mirabilis
  • Vers de Societe
  • Show Saturday
  • Money
  • Cut Grass
  • The Explosion
  • Appendix I. Uncollected Poems 1940-1972
  • Ultimatum
  • Story
  • A Writer
  • May Weather
  • Observation
  • Disintegration
  • Mythological Introduction
  • A Stone Church Damaged by a Bomb
  • Femmes Damnees
  • Plymouth
  • Portrait
  • The Dedicated
  • Modesties
  • Fiction and the Reading Public
  • Oils
  • 'Who called love conquering'
  • 'Since the majority of me'
  • Arrival
  • Tops
  • Success Story
  • Continuing to Live
  • Pigeons
  • Breadfruit
  • Love
  • 'When the Russian tanks roll westward'
  • How
  • Heads in the Women's Ward
  • Appendix II. Uncollected Poems 1974-1984
  • The Life with a Hole in it
  • Bridge for the Living
  • Aubade
  • 1952-1977
  • 'New eyes each year'
  • The Mower
  • 'Dear CHARLES, My Muse, asleep or dead'
  • 'By day, a lifted study-storehouse'
  • Party Politics
  • Appendix III. Composition Dates and Dates of First Appearance
  • Index of titles
  • Index of first lines
Review by Booklist Review

Larkin, who died in 1985, is considered one of England's finest poets, a sentiment to which this collection offers testament. Included in the book are poems from Larkin's five previous volumes as well as a generous amount of previously unpublished and uncollected poems, all selected by editor Thwaite. Larkin's intelligence and elegance, his wit and craft, are apparent in poem after poem, from those written in his early teens to those left unfinished at his death, a span of some 47 years. While the influences on his earlier work may be obvious--strains of Yeats, Auden, and even Vernon Watkins will be apparent to some--Larkin had found his own style and poetic voice shortly after the publication of XX Poems, his second volume. Although he achieved acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic during his life, this chronologically arranged compendium will ensure his hard-won niche in English poetry for decades to come. --Jim Elledge

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.
Review by Library Journal Review

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 (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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