{"product_id":"collected-poems-of-philip-larkin-folio-society-2533","title":"Collected Poems of Philip Larkin","description":"\u003cp\u003eCollected Poems of Philip Larkin. Introduced by Anthony Thwaite. Foreword by Andrew Motion. Edited by Anthony Thwaite. Colour frontispiece and 12 integrated black \u0026amp; white photographs by the author. Three-quarter bound in green cloth spine title blocked in white with a paper front board, printed with a colour design by Richard Peacock. Green endpapers. Plain slipcase. 280pp. 9½x6¾in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCollected Poems brings together the major poetry of Philip Larkin, including work associated with The North Ship, The Less Deceived, The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows. His poems repeatedly examine loneliness, ageing, death, love and disappointment, memory, ordinary English life and the gap between hopes and reality. Larkin's style is characteristically clear and conversational, combining precise observation with dry humour, melancholy and an acute awareness of passing time. Everyday settings such as rooms, streets, churches, trains and social occasions become starting points for reflections on relationships, identity and mortality.  Together, the poems present Larkin's unsentimental but deeply attentive view of modern life and establish the themes and voice for which he became one of the most distinctive British poets of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Folio Vault","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":55216692134227,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":55421253681491,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1085\/2951\/6883\/files\/2533.jpg?v=1792532926","url":"https:\/\/thefoliovault.com\/products\/collected-poems-of-philip-larkin-folio-society-2533","provider":"Folio Vault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}