The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse

The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse
Cover from a reissue version
Author	Philip Larkin
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Poetry
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Publication date	1973
OCLC	637331
Dewey Decimal	821/.9/108
LC Class	PR1225 .L3

The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse is a poetry anthology edited by Philip Larkin. It was published in 1973 by Oxford University Press with ISBN 0-19-812137-7. Larkin writes in the short preface that the selection is wide rather than deep; and also notes that for the post-1914 period it is more a collection of poems, than of poets. The remit was limited by him to poets with a period of residence in the British Isles. The volume contains works by 207 poets.

Contributing poets

Philip Larkin

Poetry collections	The North Ship (1945) The Less Deceived (1955) The Whitsun Weddings (1964) High Windows (1974)

Posthumous collections	Collected Poems (1988) Collected Poems (2003)

Poems	"The Whitsun Weddings" (1964) "An Arundel Tomb" (1964) "Mr Bleaney" (1955) "This Be The Verse" (1974) "Days" (1964) "MCMXIV (1964)

Other publications	Jill (1945) A Girl in Winter (1947) The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse (1973) Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940–1985 (1992)

Related	List of poems by Philip Larkin Larkin at Sixty (1982) Philip Larkin Society Larkin 25 Relationships that influenced Philip Larkin Mr Larkin's Awkward Day Brunette Coleman (juvenile pseudonym)

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