Description
Philip Larkin (1922-1985) remains England’s best-loved poet – a writer matchlessly capable of evoking his native land and of touching all readers from the most sophisticated intellectual to the proverbial common reader. The late John Betjeman observed that ‘this tenderly observant poet writes clearly, rhythmically, and thoughtfully about what all of us can understand’. Behind this modest description lies a poet who made greatness look, in Milton’s prescription, ‘simple, sensuous and passionate’.
This collection, first published in 1967, contains many of his best-loved poems, including The Whitsun Weddings, An Arundel Tomb, Days, Mr Bleaney and MCMXIV.






We Are Together
What Rhymes with Sneeze?
The Tamarit Poems
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
The Smeds and the Smoos
The 'White City'
Ten Little Elves
This Is Yarrow
Milk and Honey
Confessional Sonnets
The Moon Before Morning