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Collected Poems (Paperback)

by Philip Larkin (Author)

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Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Faber and Faber; New edition edition (17 Feb 2003)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0571216544
ISBN-13: 978-0571216543
Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 2 cm

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This edition of Larkin's poems presents his four published books "The North Ship", "The Less Deceived", "The Whitsun Weddings" and "High Windows" in their original sequence. The text also includes an appendix of poems that Larkin published in other places, from his juvenilia to his final years. Preserving everything that he published in his lifetime, this collection of poems returns readers to the book Larkin might have intended if he had lived.

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Philip Larkin (1922-1985) was the best-loved poet of his generation, and the recipient of innumerable honours.

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1.0 out of 5 stars The wrong edition, 22 Dec 2007

By	Mr. C. O. Jones (Norwich) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If you want an edition that doesn't contain more than forty poems from Larkin's maturity, then this is the one for you. If, however, you would like to be able to read what Blake Morrison called 'Larkin's last great poem' ('Love Again') or other examples that stand comparison with his best work, like 'Marriages', 'Letter to a Friend about Girls', 'Strangers', 'Autumn', 'Maturity', 'The Dance', 'Negative Indicative' etc etc, then avoid this edition at all costs. Try and get the original Collected Poems second hand, which has them all in. Otherwise you risk being socially embarrassed when someone starts talking to you about 'Gathering Wood' and you swear blind Larkin never wrote such a poem. Think of it!

P.S. It has been pointed out that this review has been posted on ALL the editions of Larkin's collected poems, which is pretty stupid and unhelpful. What is the point of listing editions separately and then posting a review aimed at one particular edition on them all? Anyway, this review is aimed at the 2003 edition, which is (I believe) the first to conatin the cuts. Anything before that date should be OK (UK & US editions). There are plenty available, I urge you to buy them and avoid missing out on some superb poems.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Doubtful edition of good book, 4 April 2003

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No edition of Larkin's poems could ever be a waste of paper, and anybody without them should buy at once: but please note that this is not the 1980s edition of the same name, and has been cut. It has the same title and editor, and looks like the same book - indeed its blurb is the same - but many of his juvenile poems are omitted and the arrangement is no longer chronological. Given that Larkin spent his adult life as a university librarian, it seems ironic that his Collected will be the source of endless confusion and misidentification in future catalogues. Faber have done him a pointless disservice by this new version, and another by not identifying it as such. But I can only bear to knock one star off the total.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Glimpses of joy more poigniant for the fear and despair, 18 Sep 2000

By	M. G. Alexander Wall (London) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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...Tritely characterised as a misanthrope and a curmudgeon the poems of his cannon are full of intense beauty and moments of potently alluring melancholy wholly at odds with the image. It is often claimed that Larkin wrote only 4 great poems - Here, Dockery and Son, Aubade, The Witsun Weddings - This collection underlines the absurdity of this view - In poems like Church Going, Arundel Tomb and Show Saturday we find a poet who resolves the seemingly mundane into conclusion whose optimism and joy are all the more intense for being reasoned to rather than asserted. His deeply British sense of identity and location are also expressed in wonderfully comic and self-deprecating pieces such as 'I remember I remember', 'vers de societe'. Finally on death and ageing he expresses everyman's fear with a clarity that is truly chilling in its finality.

I have been reading Larkin for 15 years, the depth and power of his writing continues to amaze and delight me.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Critical, truthful and revealing.
There is no doubt that the poetry in this book is brilliant. larkin was a master at conveying his thoughts and criticisms of mankind. Read more

Published 2 months ago by Archie

5.0 out of 5 stars Collected Poems by Philip Larkin
Excellent collection of the author's poems. I was amazed at how many the collection included.

Published 4 months ago by Ratbag

5.0 out of 5 stars Philip Larkin Collected Poems
This book is brilliant, I spend my time reading his poems over and over again, and the favourites get better, whiles the ones I have not read before become great.

Published 5 months ago by Ms. K. Murray

5.0 out of 5 stars He knew a lot about being human.
Remarkable, beautiful, sad.

These poems have meant so much to me all through my life.

Published 10 months ago by James Blackman

5.0 out of 5 stars A window on the world
Like so many others, I discovered Larkin doing A level English. Nothing else, I studied then, has stuck with me , some 20 years on, like Larkin has. Read more

Published on 6 Oct 2007 by DavyA

5.0 out of 5 stars A cynical poet but so good with it!
I found Larkin whilst studying for my A-Levels, so was a perfect poet for an angst ridden teenager! His poems are often cynical and bitter, but there is often so much more to... Read more

Published on 9 Jul 2006 by Spider Monkey

5.0 out of 5 stars Philip Larkin
I studied the Whitsun Weddings for my A Level English Literature course,that was the first time i was ever introduced to Larkin's poetry, and ihave to confess at that time i found... Read more

Published on 24 April 2004 by M. Austin

5.0 out of 5 stars Too few stars allowed to show my full assessment
Philip Larkin is the greatest (and most under-rated) poet in English. This book should be owned, continuously and closely retained, and shared with others as if it were Holy... Read more

Published on 2 May 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars Something about Larkin.
Larkin frequently adopts the persona of the very ordinary man in the street to explore his themes. As a consequence, his poetic language is that of the public bar rather than the... Read more

Published on 2 Nov 1998

4.0 out of 5 stars A librarian's lofty disdain.
The view from Larkins' ivory tower was such that he felt able to look down on and sneer at much of "ordinary" humanity, a somewhat typically British, middle-class... Read more

Published on 28 Oct 1998

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