Collected Poems
Published on 11. December 2014
240 pages
978-0-571-26326-4 (ISBN)
Description
Since its publication in 1988, Philip Larkin's Collected Poems has become essential reading on any poetry bookshelf. This new edition returns to Larkin's own deliberate ordering of his poems, presenting, in their original sequence, his four published books: The North Ship, The Less Deceived, The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows. It also includes an appendix of poems that Larkin published in other places, from his juvenilia to his final years - some of which might have appeared in a late book, if he had lived. Preserving everything that he published in his lifetime, this new Collected Poems returns the reader to the book Larkin might have intended.
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Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
File size
0,66 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-571-26326-4 (9780571263264)
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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 Library, and Required Writing: Miscellaneous Prose. He worked as a librarian at the University of Hull from 1955 until his death in 1985. He was the best-loved poet of his generation, and the recipient of innumerable honours, including the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, and the WHSmith Award.
Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- 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'
- XXVIII '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 Société
- 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 Damneés
- 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
- About the Author
- By the Same Author
- Copyright
