Collected Poems

Informationen zum Autor 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 Diary ! and Required Writing: Miscellaneous Prose . He worked as a librarian at the University of Hull from 1955 until his death in 1985. Klappentext Since its publication in 1988, Philip Larkin's Collected Poems has become essential reading on any poetry bookshelf. Preserving everything that he published in his lifetime, this new Collected Poems returns the reader to the book Larkin might have intended: it is, for the first time, Larkin's 'own' collected poems.Philip Larkin's Collected Poems contains all of this enormously popular poet's work, from The North Ship , The Less Deceived , The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows . Zusammenfassung Since its publication in 1988, Philip Larkin's Collected Poems has become essential reading on any poetry bookshelf. Preserving everything that he published in his lifetime, this new Collected Poems returns the reader to the book Larkin might have intended: it is, for the first time, Larkin's 'own' collected poems.

Vorwort
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.

Autorentext
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 Diary, and Required Writing: Miscellaneous Prose. He worked as a librarian at the University of Hull from 1955 until his death in 1985.

Klappentext

Since its publication in 1988, Philip Larkin's Collected Poems has become essential reading on any poetry bookshelf. Preserving everything that he published in his lifetime, this new Collected Poems returns the reader to the book Larkin might have intended: it is, for the first time, Larkin's 'own' collected poems.