This volume, edited by Anthony Thwaite

Anthony Thwaite

Anthony Simon Thwaite, OBE, is an English poet and writer. He is married to the writer Ann Thwaite. He was awarded the OBE in 1992, for services to poetry. He was mainly brought up in Yorkshire and currently lives in Norfolk....

, contains all of Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin

Philip Arthur Larkin, CH, CBE, FRSL is widely regarded as one of the great English poets of the latter half of the twentieth century...

's poetry published during his lifetime. It consists of the contents of The North Ship

The North Ship

The North Ship is a collection of poems by Philip Larkin , and was published in 1945 by Reginald A. Caton's Fortune Press. It was reissued in 1966 by Faber and Faber Limited. In the 1945 version there are 31 items, numbered with Roman numerals. The last of these, "The North Ship" is a set of five...

, The Less Deceived

The Less Deceived

The Less Deceived, first published in 1955, was Philip Larkin's first mature collection of poetry, having been preceded by the derivative North Ship from The Fortune Press and a privately printed collection...

, The Whitsun Weddings

The Whitsun Weddings (book)

The Whitsun Weddings is a collection of 32 poems by Philip Larkin. It was first published by Faber and Faber in the United Kingdom on 28 February 1964. It was a commercial success, by the standards of poetry publication, with the first 4,000 copies being sold within two months. A U.S...

and High Windows

High Windows

High Windows is a collection of poems by English poet Philip Larkin, and was published in 1974 by Faber and Faber Limited. The readily available paperback version was first published in Britain in 1979...

in their original ordering, plus two appendices containing all the other poems Larkin published eg. "Aubade

Aubade

An aubade is a morning love song , or a song or poem about lovers separating at dawn. It has also been defined as "a song or instrumental composition concerning, accompanying, or evoking daybreak"....

".

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.

• The Life with a Hole in it
• Bridge for the Living
• Aubade
• In times when nothing stood...
• New eyes each year...
• The Mower
• Dear Charles, My Muse, asleep or dead...
• Party Politics

See also

• Collected Poems – 1988 edition
  Collected Poems – 1988 edition (Philip Larkin)
  This posthumously published volume is a completist's view of Philip Larkin's poetry. It was edited by Anthony Thwaite. It contains, in strict chronological order, all of his published work, all his completed unpublished mature work, much unpublished early work, and some uncompleted work.-See...
  
  
• List of poems by Philip Larkin