Collected Poems – 2003 edition (Philip Larkin)

Collected Poems
Author Philip Larkin
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre Poetry
Publisher Faber and Faber
Publication date
 2003
Pages 240
ISBN 978-0-571-21654-3
OCLC 51804524
Preceded by Collected Poems (1988 ed.)

Collected Poems, edited by Anthony Thwaite, 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 e.g. "Aubade".

Appendices

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.

See also


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