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by: Philip Larkin
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 821.914
EAN: 9780374529208
ISBN: 0374529205
Label: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: April 01, 2004
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Sales Rank: 100620
Studio: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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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.
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Rating:  - An elegaic poet of considerable power and grace.
I highly recommend this to readers who value traditonal use of the English language and rare gifts with expressing this melancholy view of his life and times.
Rating: - One of the best poetry collections I own
Philip Larkin wrote some of the most perfect poems written in the English language, and this well-edited collection proves it. If that sounds like hyperbole, then you really need to get ahold of some of Larkin's poems ("Sad Steps" or "Church Going" are both good places to start). If they don't change your mind, then we have very different definitions of great poetry.
Though I'm willing to admit that his first book (which is included in this collection), The North Ship, is apprentice ... Read More
Rating:  - Easy beyond recognition
Some say Philip Larkin is not even a poet, but a kind of social observer. Perhaps they do not catch the richness hidden in a very simple verse or do not accept a non-obscure modern writer. This editon shows poems in chronological order, which is good, but lacks more information about Larkin.
Rating: - A great poet, a great edition.
I have only recently discovered the poetry of Larkin, and his work is insightful, droll, sometimes depressing, but always engaging. He was not afraid of rhyming and using strict meters, and his poems are often beautiful because of, not despite, these elements of traditional poetic craft. A worthy addition to any bookshelf of top-flight poetry.
Rating: - Astounding
Perhaps Larkin has been somewhat overlooked because he wrote in rhymed verse and the past century has been increasingly focused on free verse. I generally favor free verse, myself, but Larkin's skill at rhyme is such that it is always unobtrusive, never strained or forced, and sometimes.
But, his modernity is indisputable, combining, and perhaps exceeding, the humanity of Auden as well as the perspicacity of Eliot.
His is clearly a concise body of work, but it is large ... Read More
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