Collected Poems

By: Philip Larkin (Editor), Anthony Thwaite (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 July 2005 | Edition Number 1

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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: it is, for the first time, Larkin''s ''own'' collected poems.

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"More often than any other English poet since the war, Larkin gave us lines that it is unlikely we'll be able to forget." --Ian Hamilton, "The Times "(London)
"Larkin is resolute, forthright, witty, and gloomy. This is the man who famously said that deprivation was for him what daffodils were for Wordsworth. Yet surely the results of this life, in the shape of his poems, are gifts, not deprivations." --Donald Hall, "The New Criterion"

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Introduction
'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
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
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
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	p. 201
Index of titles	p. 211
Index of first lines	p. 215
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