Collected Poems

First edition. 8vo. Pp. xxviii, 330. Olive brown boards lettered and ruled in white to spine. Butter yellow dustwrapper with publisher's printed price of £16.95 on the front flap.

Edited with an introduction by Anthony Thwaite. Note on the Manuscripts and Typescripts, Order of Poems in the individual collections, Index of titles and Index of first lines.

Larkin's complete published poetry in a single volume: The North Ship (1945), the pamphlet of XX Poems (1953), The Less Deceived (1955), The Whitsun Weddings (1964), and his final book, High Windows (1974), in his preferred sequence. Contains much previously unpublished or uncollected material, including juvenilia. The body of his work, consisting of two-hundred and forty-two poems, including eighty-three hitherto unprinted. "[The] greatest British post-war writer". –The Times

[Bloomfield A19a]