Collected Poems

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ISBN: 9780374524333 | 0374524335
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 4/30/1995

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One of the best-known and best-loved poets of the English-speaking world, Larkin (1922-85) had only a small number of poems published during his lifetime.Collected Poems, which J. D. McClatchy called "a fascinating and indispensable text" inThe New York Times Book Review, brings together not only all of Larkin's published verse--The North Ship(1945), the pamphlet ofXX Poems(1953),The Less Deceived(1955),The Whitsun Weddings(1964), andHigh Windows(1974)--but also a vast selection of his uncollected poetry.

The Wound	p. 3
Here Come the Saints	p. 4
To his Cynical Mistress	p. 5
Wind in the Street	p. 6
Lazarus Not Raised	p. 7
Lofty in the Palais de Danse	p. 9
Round and Round	p. 11
Helen's Rape	p. 12
The Secret Sharer	p. 13
La Prisonniere	p. 14
Carnal Knowledge	p. 15
The Court Revolt	p. 17
The Right Possessor	p. 19
Looking Glass	p. 21
Lerici	p. 23
A Mirror for Poets	p. 24
The Beach Head	p. 26
A Kind of Ethics	p. 28
Tamer and Hawk	p. 29
Captain in Time of Peace	p. 30
Without a Counterpart	p. 31
For a Birthday	p. 32
Incident on a Journey	p. 33
On the Move	p. 39
The Nature of an Action	p. 41
At the Back of the North Wind	p. 43
Before the Carnival	p. 44
A Plan of Self-Subjection	p. 46
Birthday Poem	p. 48
First Meeting with a Possible Mother-in-Law	p. 49
Autumn Chapter in a Novel	p. 50
The Wheel of Fortune	p. 52
The Silver Age	p. 53
The Unsettled Motorcyclist's Vision of his Death	p. 54
Lines for a Book	p. 56
Elvis Presley	p. 57
Market at Turk	p. 58
In Praise of Cities	p. 59
The Allegory of the Wolf Boy	p. 61
Julian the Apostate	p. 62
Jesus and his Mother	p. 64
St Martin and the Beggar	p. 66
To Yvor Winters, 1955	p. 69
The Inherited Estate	p. 71
During an Absence	p. 73
The Separation	p. 75
High Fidelity	p. 76
Legal Reform	p. 77
Thoughts on Unpacking	p. 79
Merlin in the Cave: He Speculates without a Book	p. 81
The Corridor	p. 85
Vox Humana	p. 87
In Santa Maria del Popolo	p. 93
The Annihilation of Nothing	p. 95
The Monster	p. 96
Readings in French	p. 98
From the Highest Camp	p. 99
Innocence	p. 100
Modes of Pleasure	p. 101
Modes of Pleasure	p. 102
A Map of the City	p. 103
The Book of the Dead	p. 104
The Byrnies	p. 106
Black Jackets	p. 108
The Value of Gold	p. 110
Claus von Stauffenberg	p. 111
Waking in a Newly Built House	p. 115
Flying Above California	p. 116
Considering the Snail	p. 117
'Blackie, the Electric Rembrandt'	p. 118
Hotblood on Friday	p. 119
The Feel of Hands	p. 120
L'Epreuve	p. 121
Rastignac at 45	p. 122
Lights Among Redwood	p. 124
Adolescence	p. 125
A Trucker	p. 126
Loot	p. 127
My Sad Captains	p. 129
The Last Man	p. 133
Memoirs of the World	p. 137
Elegy on the Dust	p. 144
The First Man	p. 146
The Goddess	p. 155
The Kiss at Bayreuth	p. 156
Berlin in Ruins	p. 157
Confessions of the Life Artist	p. 159
No Speech from the Scaffold	p. 164
Taylor Street	p. 165
The Conversation of Old Men	p. 166
The Old Woman	p. 167
Touch	p. 168
The Vigil of Corpus Christi	p. 170
From an Asian Tent	p. 172
In the Tank	p. 173
The Clock	p. 174
Back to Life	p. 175
Pierce Street	p. 177
Aqueduct	p. 179
The Inside-Outside Game	p. 180
Rites of Passage	p. 185
Moly	p. 186
For Signs	p. 188
Justin	p. 190
Phaedra in the Farm House	p. 191
The Sand Man	p. 193
Apartment Cats	p. 194
Three	p. 195
Words	p. 197
From the Wave	p. 198
Tom-Dobbin	p. 200
The Rooftop	p. 203
The Colour Machine	p. 205
Street Song	p. 207
The Fair in the Woods	p. 209
Listening to Jefferson Airplane	p. 211
To Natty Bumppo	p. 212
The Garden of the Gods	p. 213
Flooded Meadows	p. 215
Grasses	p. 216
The Messenger	p. 217
Being Born	p. 218
At the Centre	p. 220
The Discovery of the Pacific	p. 222
Sunlight	p. 223
The Bed	p. 229
Diagrams	p. 230
Iron Landscapes (and the Statue of Liberty)	p. 231
The Corporal	p. 233
Fever	p. 235
The Night Piece	p. 236
Last Days at Teddington	p. 237
All Night, Legs Pointed East	p. 238
The Geysers	p. 239
Three Songs: Baby Song	p. 247
Three Songs: Hitching into Frisco	p. 247
Three Songs: Sparrow	p. 248
The Plunge	p. 253
Bringing to Light	p. 255
Thomas Bewick	p. 258
Wrestling	p. 260
The Outdoor Concert	p. 263
Saturnalia	p. 265
Faustus Triumphant	p. 267
Dolly	p. 269
Jack Straw's Castle	p. 270
An Amorous Debate	p. 280
Autobiography	p. 285
Hampstead: the Horse Chestnut Trees	p. 287
The Road Map	p. 289
The Idea of Trust	p. 290
Courage, a Tale	p. 292
Behind the Mirror	p. 293
The Cherry Tree	p. 294
Mandrakes	p. 297
Yoko	p. 299
The Release	p. 301
Breaking Ground	p. 303
Elegy	p. 311
Adultery	p. 313
Bally Power Play	p. 315
New York	p. 317
The Conversation	p. 319
Expression	p. 321
Selves	p. 322
A Waking Dream	p. 325
Sweet Things	p. 326
The Cat and the Wind	p. 329
Small Plane in Kansas	p. 330
The Exercise	p. 331
Hide and Seek	p. 333
As Expected	p. 335
The Menace	p. 337
Song of a Camera	p. 347
Waitress	p. 349
Keats at Highgate	p. 350
His Rooms in College	p. 351
June	p. 352
Another All-Night Party	p. 353
San Francisco Streets	p. 355
The Miracle	p. 357
The Victim	p. 358
Painkillers	p. 361
Slow Waker	p. 363
The Girls Next Door	p. 365
Donahue's Sister	p. 367
At an Intersection	p. 369
A Drive to Los Alamos	p. 372
Transients and Residents: Falstaff	p. 374
Transients and Residents: Crystal	p. 375
Transients and Residents: Crosswords	p. 376
Transients and Residents: Interruption	p. 378
Talbot Road	p. 380
Night Taxi	p. 386
Fennel	p. 391
Venetian Blind	p. 392
A Bulletin from the Stadium	p. 393
Smoking Pot on the Bus	p. 395
'1975'	p. 397
Punch Rubicundus	p. 398
At the Barriers	p. 399
The Hug	p. 407
To a Friend in Time of Trouble	p. 408
Bone	p. 410
An Invitation	p. 411
The Differences	p. 413
Lines for My 55th Birthday	p. 415
Philemon and Baucis	p. 416
Odysseus on Hermes	p. 417
Seesaw	p. 419
A Sketch of the Great Dejection	p. 423
Patch Work	p. 427
The Life of the Otter	p. 429
Three for Children	p. 431
Skateboard	p. 433
Well Dennis O'Grady	p. 434
Outside the Diner	p. 435
Improvisation	p. 437
Old Meg	p. 438
Yellow Pitcher Plant	p. 439
Tenderloin	p. 441
Looks	p. 443
To Isherwood Dying	p. 445
The Stealer	p. 446
JVC	p. 448
Barren Leaves	p. 449
Jamesian	p. 450
Meat	p. 451
Cafeteria in Boston	p. 452
Nasturtium	p. 454
The Beautician	p. 455
'All Do Not All Things Well'	p. 456
The Man with Night Sweats	p. 461
In Time of Plague	p. 463
Lament	p. 465
Terminal	p. 469
Still Life	p. 470
The Reassurance	p. 471
Words for Some Ash	p. 472
Sacred Heart	p. 473
Her Pet	p. 475
Courtesies of the Interregnum	p. 476
To the Dead Owner of a Gym	p. 478
Memory Unsettled	p. 479
The J Car	p. 480
To a Dead Graduate Student	p. 482
The Missing	p. 483
Death's Door	p. 485
A Blank	p. 487
Postscript and Notes	p. 489
Index of Titles	p. 493
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