Collected Poems – 2003 edition (Philip Larkin)

Collected Poems – 2003 edition (Philip Larkin)

This volume contains all of Philip Larkin's poetry published during his lifetime. It consists of the contents of "The North Ship", "The Less Deceived", "The Whitsun Weddings" and "High Windows" in their original ordering, plus two appendices containing all the other poems Larkin published eg. "Aubade"

The first appendix contains poems published in magazines and journals before 1972, but not subsequently collected by Larkin. The contents of the privately printed "XX Poems" (1951) are deemed to be in this category.
" [Ellipsis (...) indicates first line of an untitled poem] "

*Ultimatum
*Story
*A Writer
*May Weather
*Observation
*Disintegration
*Mythological Introduction
*A Stone Church Damaged by a Bomb
*Femmes Damnées
*Portrait
*The Dedicated
*Modesties
*Fiction and the Reading Public
*Oils ("originally the first part of "Two Portraits of Sex")
*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 second appendix contains those poems published after "High Windows", Larkin's final volume
*The Life with a Hole in it
*Bridge for the Living
*Aubade
*In times when nothing stood...
*New eyes each year...
*The Mower
*Dear Charles, My Muse, asleep or dead...
*Party Politics

ee also

*List of poems by Philip Larkin


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