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100 1 _aLarkin, Philip
_d, 1922-1985
245 1 0 _aCollected poems
_c/ Philip Larkin
260 _aNew York
_b: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
_c, 2003, c1988
300 _a218 p.
_c; 21 cm.
505 0 0 _aAll catches alight -- This was your place of birth, this daytime palace -- The moon is full tonight -- Dawn -- Conscript -- Kick up the fire, and let the flames break loose -- The horns of the morning -- Winter -- Climbing the hill within the deafening wind -- Within the dream you said -- Night-music -- Like the train's beat -- I put my mouth -- Nursery tale -- The dancer -- The bottle is drunk out by one -- To write one song, I said -- If grief could burn out -- Ugly sister -- I see a girl dragged by the wrists -- I dreamed of an out-thrust arm of land -- One man walking a deserted platform -- If hands could free you, heart -- Love, we must part now: do not let it be -- Morning has spread again -- This is the first thing -- Heaviest of flowers, the head -- Is it for now or for always -- Pour away that youth -- So through that unripe day you bore your head -- The north ship -- Waiting for breakfast, while she brushed her hair -- Lines on a young lady's photograph album -- Wedding-wind -- Places, loved ones -- Coming -- Reasons for attendance -- Dry-point -- Next, please -- Going -- Wants -- Maiden name -- Born yesterday -- Whatever happened? -- No road -- Wires -- Church going -- Age -- Myxomatosis -- Toads -- Poetry of departures -- Triple time -- Spring -- Deceptions -- I remember, I remember -- Absences -- Latest face -- If, my darling -- Skin -- Arrivals, departures -- At grass -- Here -- Mr Bleaney -- Nothing to be said -- Love songs in age -- Naturally the foundation will bear your expenses -- Broadcast -- Faith healing -- For Sidney Bechet -- Home is so sad -- Toads revisited -- Water -- The Whitsun weddings -- Self's the man -- Take one home for the kiddies -- Days -- MCMXIV -- Talking in bed -- The large cool store -- A study of reading habits -- As bad as a mile -- Ambulances -- The importance of elsewhere -- Sunny Prestatyn -- First sight -- Dockery and son -- Ignorance -- Reference back -- Wild oats -- Essential beauty -- Send no money -- Afternoons -- An Arundel tomb -- To the sea -- Sympathy in white major -- The trees -- Livings -- Forget what did -- High windows -- Friday night in the Royal Station Hotel -- The old fools -- Going, going -- The card-players -- The building -- Posterity -- Dublinesque -- Homage to a government -- This be the verse -- How distant -- Sad steps -- Solar -- Annus mirabilis -- Vers de société -- Show Saturday -- Money -- Cut grass -- The explosion -- Ultimatum -- Story -- A writer -- May weather -- Observation -- Disintegration -- Mythological introduction -- A stone church damaged by a bomb -- Femmes damnées -- Plymouth -- Portrait -- The dedicated -- Modesties -- Fiction and the reading public -- Oils -- 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 life with a hole in it -- Bridge for the living -- Aubade -- 1952-1977 -- New eyes each year -- The mower -- Dear CHARLES, my muse, asleep or dead -- By day, a lifted study-storehouse -- Party politics.
520 _aOne of the best-known and best-loved poets of the English-speaking world, Philip Larkin had only a small number of poems published during his lifetime. Collected Poems brings together not only all his books but also his uncollected poems from 1940 to 1984.
546 _aEnglish
650 4 _aPoetry, English
700 1 _aThwaite, Anthony
942 _cMO
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