{"product_id":"9780374529208","title":"Collected Poems","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Philip Larkin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne 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. \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e brings together not only all his books--\u003ci\u003eThe North Ship\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Less Deceived\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Whitsun Weddings\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHigh Windows-\u003c\/i\u003e-but also his uncollected poems from 1940 to 1984. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis new edition reflects Larkin's own ordering for his poems and is the first collection to present the body of his work with the organization he preferred. Preserving everything he published in his lifetime, the new \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e is an indispensable contribution to the legacy of an icon of twentieth-century poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“More often than any other English poet since the war, Larkin gave us lines that it is unlikely we'll be able to forget.” —\u003ci\u003eIan Hamilton, The Times (London)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.” —\u003ci\u003eDonald Hall, The New Criterion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780374529208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40593154015438,"sku":"9780374529208","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_6873e84d-922c-47c4-abac-94889a2364bb.jpg?v=1637782684","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780374529208","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}