Collected Poems (Larkin)

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

Collected Poems is a posthumous collection of all of Philip Larkin's published poetry. It is edited by Anthony Thwaite and published by Faber and Faber, who released two notably different editions in 1988 and 2003, the first of which also includes previously unpublished work. Both editions contain the contents of Larkin's collections The North Ship, The Less Deceived, The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows, plus other material.

History

For the 1988 edition, editor Anthony Thwaite included all of Philip Larkin's published poetry as well as unpublished and incomplete work. Thwaite organized the poems in chronological order, meaning that poems from Larkin's four collections, his uncollected poems, and his unpublished work are interspersed throughout according to their date of composition. Some critics considered the arrangement eccentric.[1][2][3]

In 2003, Thwaite prepared a new edition with a different arrangement. It does not contain the vast volume of unpublished and incomplete work included in the 1988 edition, and orders the published poems in Larkin's preferred arrangement, separating them according to his four published collections, The North Ship, The Less Deceived, The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows. Additionally, it includes two appendices containing all the other poems Larkin published.[1][3]

Appendices

The 2003 edition includes Larkin's uncollected poems in two 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

References

  1. 1 2 Gudas, Eric (2005). "Review: Collected Poems – Philip Larkin" (PDF). The Bloomsbury Review. 25 (1). Retrieved September 20, 2016.
  2. ↑ Banville, John (25 January 2012). "The Complete Poems by Philip Larkin, edited by Archie Burnett - review". The Guardian. Retrieved September 20, 2016.
  3. 1 2 Updike, John (July 26, 2004). "Twice Collected: The well-cared-for poems of Philip Larkin.". The New Yorker. Retrieved September 20, 2016.
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