Since its publication in 1988, Philip Larkin's Collected Poems, edited by Anthony Thwaite, has become essential reading on any poetry bookshelf. As Blake Morrison wrote in the Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry (2013), it was 'the first attempt to bring together his published and unpublished poetry, and remains the most attractive and accessible volume in print'. Differing to the later 2003 Collected Poems which followed the order of Larkin's successive published collections, the poems here are arranged by chronological ...
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Since its publication in 1988, Philip Larkin's Collected Poems, edited by Anthony Thwaite, has become essential reading on any poetry bookshelf. As Blake Morrison wrote in the Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry (2013), it was 'the first attempt to bring together his published and unpublished poetry, and remains the most attractive and accessible volume in print'. Differing to the later 2003 Collected Poems which followed the order of Larkin's successive published collections, the poems here are arranged by chronological order of completion. The result is a fascinating and extraordinary insight into the development of this best-loved poet. 'Philip Larkin was uniquely cherished, and not just in England, largely because of his gift for winning the respect of two kinds of readers: those scrupulously concerned about literary standards and those other nonspecialist listeners-in to what is generally available. This means that his Collected Poems is already a classic, with a guaranteed life on the market and in the memory.' Seamus Heaney 'With this magnificent Collected Poems before us, we can recognise that right from the start his approach to writing poetry was that of a virtuoso.' Peter Porter
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Good in good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 330 p. Audience: General/trade. 3rd hardcover printing. Denting on both flaps form being used as bookmarks, fold down front flap, sunning on dj, staining on cover and dj, A LOT of soil on edge, else text clean, binding tight.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux and the Marvell Press, New York. 1989. 330 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Thwaite has gathered all the poems Larkin wrote between 1946 and 1985, the year of his death; he also includes a generous selection of work written earlier, before Larkin found his characteristic voice. In all, there are some 240 poems, 83 of them never published before. The unpublished work comes from every period of Larkin's career and increases by half the number of poems in his canon. The poet we now have is considerably more prolific than the one who issued only three small, mature collections in his lifetime. With or without the new poems, Larkin is a major postwar British writer, and this is the best available collection of his poetry. EB; 6 X 1 X 8.5 inches; 330 pages.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8 Vo. 1st American printing; dj w/unclipped price, in mylar; green c w/gilt titles on black; 329 clean, unmarked pages; owner's insc.
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Very Good in Very Good- jacket. Book DJ price clipped, has a couple small tears, edge wear, creases, scratches, rubbed corners/spine. Boards have edge wear, rubbed corners/spine. Small bent page corners. Minor dirt/stains on edge. No writing.
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Good in a Ver Good dust jacket. Spine cocked. Inking at top of FEP. Light bumping at top of rear panel and spine crown. Dampstaining.; 8.4 X 5.6 X 1.1 inches; 330 pages.
Not the complete works but a very satisfactory collection by Anthony Thwaite. I have enjoyed dipping into it since it arrived some weeks ago, reacquainting myself with one of England's favourite poets.