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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: 24552
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:  - 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
Rating: - This be the verse
There are two different types of Larkin poem. The first type, mostly written before 1955, are influenced by Yeats and Auden and are mediocre. The second, written when he found his voice, are amongst the most wonderful works of English literature ever written.
So what was his voice? Basically that of twentieth century man - atheistic, obsessed with sex, regretting the loss of faith and the old certainties. He takes these subjects and turns them into glorious poems. But here's the really incredible ... Read More
Rating:  - Lame Larkin
I am one of a growing number that find Larkin lame and flaccid. You read, you understand, you move on. There is little to struggle over, nothing one wishes to reread. Simple poems of a lost England.
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