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Collected poems / Philip Larkin ; edited and with an introduction by Anthony Thwaite.
LIBRA - Special PR6023.A66 A17 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Larkin, Philip.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry--20th century.
- English poetry.
- Genre:
- English poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 218 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- All catches alight
- This was your place of birth, this daytime palace
- The moon is full tonight
- Dawn
- Conscript
- Kick up the fire, and let the flames break loose
- The horns of the morning
- Winter
- Climbing the hill within the deafening wind
- Within the dream you said
- Night-music
- Like the train's beat
- I put my mouth
- Nursery tale
- The dancer
- The bottle is drunk out by one
- To write one song, I said
- If grief could burn out
- Ugly sister
- I see a girl dragged by the wrists
- I dreamed of an out-thrust arm of land
- One man walking a deserted platform
- If hands could free you, heart
- Love, we must part now: do not let it be
- Morning has spread again
- This is the first thing
- Heaviest of flowers, the head
- Is it for now or for always
- Pour away that youth
- So through that unripe day you bore your head
- The north ship
- Waiting for breakfast, while she brushed her hair
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Ultimatum
- Story
- A writer
- May weather
- Observation
- Disintegration
- Mythological introduction
- A stone church damaged by a bomb
- Femmes damnées
- 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
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0374529205
- 9780374529208
- OCLC:
- 52878758
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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