Collected Poems

by Larkin, Philip; Thwaite, Anthony

• ISBN13: 9780374529208
• ISBN10: 0374529205
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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 Poemsbrings together not only all his books--The North Ship,The Less Deceived,The Whitsun Weddings, andHigh 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 newCollected Poemsis an indispensable contribution to the legacy of an icon of twentieth-century poetry.

Author Biography

Philip Larkin (1922-1985) grew up in Coventry, England. In 1955 he became librarian of the Brynmor Jones Library at the University of Hull, a post he held until his death. He was the recipient of innumerable honors, including the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
The North Ship
'All catches alight'	p. 3
'This was your place of birth, this daytime palace'	p. 5
'The moon is full tonight'	p. 6
Dawn	p. 7
Conscript	p. 8
'Kick up the fire, and let the flames break loose'	p. 9
'The horns of the morning'	p. 10
Winter	p. 11
'Climbing the hill within the deafening wind'	p. 13
'Within the dream you said'	p. 14
Night-Music	p. 15
'Like the train's beat'	p. 16
'I put my mouth'	p. 17
Nursery Tale	p. 18
The Dancer	p. 19
'The bottle is drunk out by one'	p. 20
'To write one song, I said'	p. 21
'If grief could burn out'	p. 22
Ugly Sister	p. 23
'I see a girl dragged by the wrists'	p. 24
'I dreamed of an out-thrust arm of land'	p. 26
'One man walking a deserted platform'	p. 27
'If hands could free you, heart'	p. 28
'Love, we must part now: do not let it be'	p. 29
'Morning has spread again'	p. 30
'This is the first thing'	p. 31
'Heaviest of flowers, the head'	p. 32
'Is it for now or for always'	p. 33
'Pour away that youth'	p. 34
'So through that unripe day you bore your head'	p. 35
The North Ship	p. 36
'Waiting for breakfast, while she brushed her hair'	p. 40
The Less Deceived
Lines on a Young Lady's Photograph Album	p. 43
Wedding-Wind	p. 45
Places, Loved Ones	p. 46
Coming	p. 47
Reasons for Attendance	p. 48
Dry-Point	p. 49
Next, Please	p. 50
Going	p. 51
Wants	p. 52
Maiden Name	p. 53
Born Yesterday	p. 54
Whatever Happened?	p. 55
No Road	p. 56
Wires	p. 57
Church Going	p. 58
Age	p. 60
Myxomatosis	p. 61
Toads	p. 62
Poetry of Departures	p. 64
Triple Time	p. 65
Spring	p. 66
Deceptions	p. 67
I Remember, I Remember	p. 68
Absences	p. 70
Latest Face	p. 71
If, My Darling	p. 72
Skin	p. 73
Arrivals, Departures	p. 74
At Grass	p. 75
The Whitsun Weddings
Here	p. 79
Mr Bleaney	p. 81
Nothing To Be Said	p. 82
Love Songs in Age	p. 83
Naturally the Foundation will Bear Your Expenses	p. 84
Broadcast	p. 85
Faith Healing	p. 86
For Sidney Bechet	p. 87
Home is so Sad	p. 88
Toads Revisited	p. 89
Water	p. 91
The Whitsun Weddings	p. 92
Self's the Man	p. 95
Take One Home for the Kiddies	p. 97
Days	p. 98
MCMXIV	p. 99
Talking in Bed	p. 100
The Large Cool Store	p. 101
A Study of Reading Habits	p. 102
As Bad as a Mile	p. 103
Ambulances	p. 104
The Importance of Elsewhere	p. 105
Sunny Prestatyn	p. 106
First Sight	p. 107
Dockery and Son	p. 108
Ignorance	p. 110
Reference Back	p. 111
Wild Oats	p. 112
Essential Beauty	p. 113
Send No Money	p. 114
Afternoons	p. 115
An Arundel Tomb	p. 116
High Windows
To the Sea	p. 121
Sympathy in White Major	p. 123
The Trees	p. 124
Livings	p. 125
Forget What Did	p. 128
High Windows	p. 129
Friday Night in the Royal Station Hotel	p. 130
The Old Fools	p. 131
Going, Going	p. 133
The Card-Players	p. 135
The Building	p. 136
Posterity	p. 139
Dublinesque	p. 140
Homage to a Government	p. 141
This Be The Verse	p. 142
How Distant	p. 143
Sad Steps	p. 144
Solar	p. 145
Annus Mirabilis	p. 146
Vers de Societe	p. 147
Show Saturday	p. 149
Money	p. 152
Cut Grass	p. 153
The Explosion	p. 154
Uncollected Poems 1940-1972
Ultimatum	p. 157
Story	p. 158
A Writer	p. 159
May Weather	p. 160
Observation	p. 161
Disintegration	p. 162
Mythological Introduction	p. 163
A Stone Church Damaged by a Bomb	p. 164
Femmes Damnees	p. 165
Plymouth	p. 166
Portrait	p. 167
The Dedicated	p. 168
Modesties	p. 169
Fiction and the Reading Public	p. 170
Oils	p. 171
'Who called love conquering'	p. 172
'Since the majority of me'	p. 173
Arrival	p. 174
Tops	p. 175
Success Story	p. 176
Continuing to Live	p. 177
Pigeons	p. 178
Breadfruit	p. 179
Love	p. 180
'When the Russian tanks roll westward'	p. 181
How	p. 182
Heads in the Women's Ward	p. 183
Uncollected Poems 1974-1984
The Life with a Hole in it	p. 187
Bridge for the Living	p. 188
Aubade	p. 190
1952-1977	p. 192
'New eyes each year'	p. 193
The Mower	p. 194
'Dear CHARLES, My Muse, asleep or dead'	p. 195
'By day, a lifted study-storehouse'	p. 197
Party Politics	p. 198
Composition Dates and Dates of First Appearance
Index of titles	p. 211
Index of first lines	p. 215
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