one of the bestknown and bestloved poets of the englishspeaking world philip larkin had only a small number of his poems published during his lifetime collected poems brings together not only all his booksthe north ship the less deceived the whitsun weddings and high windowsbut also his uncollected poems from 1940 to 1984this new edition reflects larkins 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 collected poems is an indispensable contribution to the legacy of an icon of twentiethcentury poetry