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The Complete Poems [of Philip Larkin]
(2013) edited by Archie Burnett, with extensive comments. |
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Philip Larkin: Collected Poems
(1988) edited by Anthony Thwaite, with introduction. | |
| 1945: The North Ship poetry collection. | |
| 1955: The Less Deceived poetry collection. | |
| 1964: The Whitsun Weddings poetry collection. | |
| 1974: High Windows poetry collection. |
Some examples:
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100 Great Poems Of the Twentieth Century
(2005) edited by Mark Strand. |
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Top 500 Poems
edited by William Harmon. The 500 most anthologized poems in English, from work in 1250 by "anonymous", through Blake, William Shakespeare, and Keats, to Wilbur, Philip Larkin, Ginsberg, and Plath. The entry for Philip Larkin (one from his many high-caliber poems) is "Church Going". |
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The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse (1973)
edited by Philip Larkin. The 584 poems in English "writers born in these [British] islands (or resident here for an appreciable time) who were alive during the twentieth century and during it made or added to their reputations" [p. v of Larkin's forward]. A modest six poems are by Philip Larkin: 3 from the 1955 The Less Deceived, which are "Toads", "Coming", and "At Grass"; 3 from the 1964 The Whitsun Weddings, which are "Take One Home for the Kiddies", "Nothing to be Said" and "The Whitsun Weddings". Sadly it includes nothing from his 1974 collection High Windows. |
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The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse (1973)
edited by Philip Larkin. |
An excellent and varied collection. One welcome poem is by Elizabeth Wordsworth (1840-1932):
Good and Clever If all the good people were clever, And all clever people were good, The world would be nicer than ever We thought that it possibly could. But somehow 'tis seldom or never The two hit it off as they should, The good are so harsh to the clever, The clever, so rude to the good! So friends, let it be our endeavour To make each by each understood; For few can be good, like the clever, Or clever, so well as the good. |
The poets are presented by birth order. In the great variety of poets and poems in this collection, while many are monoliths of the 20th-century (Hardy, Housman, Kipling, Yeats, Edward Thomas, Masefield, Lawrence, Sassoon, Eliot, Owen, Graves, Smith, Day-Lewis, Betjeman, MacNiece, Auden, Dylan Thomas), work of great interest is included from over a hundred lesser known poets such as: Wilfred Gibson (b. 1878), Frances Cornford (b. 1886), Jenny Joseph (b. 1932) with her "Warning", and Philip Hobsbaum (b.1932).
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2014: Rory Waterman's Belonging and Estrangement in the Poetry of Philip Larkin, R.S. Thomas and Charles Causley.
2010:
edited by Anthony Thwaite:
Letters to Monica: Phillip Larkin.
Larkin's correspondence with Monica Jones.
2004: DeSales Harrison's The end of the mind : the edge of the intelligible in Hardy, Stevens, Larkin, Plath, and Glèuck devotes Chapter Three (Philip Larkin: Rather Than Words) to commenting on Larkin's poetry.
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Related pages:
 Books of Poetry Form.
Alphabetic list of poetry forms and related topics.
How to Write Poetry.
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Copyright © 2015-2016 by J. Zimmerman, except for the quoted poems.
All poems Copyright © 1950-2015 by Philip Larkin. All rights reserved. |
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