Philip Larkin's Collected Poems contains all of this best-loved poet's work, in the order of his published collections: The North Ship, The Less Deceived, The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows.
Philip Larkin was born in Coventry in 1922 and was educated at King Henry VIII School, Coventry, and St John's College, Oxford. As well as his volumes of poems, which include The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows, he wrote two novels, Jill and A Girl in Winter, and two books of collected journalism: All What Jazz: A Record Library, and Required Writing: Miscellaneous Prose. He worked as a librarian at the University of Hull from 1955 until his death in 1985. He was the best-loved poet of his generation, and the recipient of innumerable honours, including the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, and the WHSmith Award.
"More often than any other English poet since the war, Larkin gave
us lines that it is unlikely we'll be able to forget." --Ian
Hamilton, "The Times "(London)
"Larkin is resolute, forthright, witty, and gloomy. This is the man
who famously said that deprivation was for him what daffodils were
for Wordsworth. Yet surely the results of this life, in the shape
of his poems, are gifts, not deprivations." --Donald Hall, "The New
Criterion"
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