Collected Poems (Larkin)
Collected Poems is the title of a posthumous collection of Philip Larkin's poetry edited by Anthony Thwaite and published by Faber and Faber. He released two notably different editions in 1988 and 2003, the first of which also includes previously unpublished work. Both editions include the contents of Larkin's collections "The North Ship", "The Less Deceived", "The Whitsun Weddings" and "High Windows", plus other material. History. For the 1988 edition, editor Anthony Thwaite included all of Philip Larkin's published poetry as well as unpublished and incomplete work. Thwaite organized the poems in chronological order , meaning that poems from Larkin's four collections, his uncollected poems, and his unpublished work are interspersed throughout according to their date of composition. The book is divided into two sections. The first section includes 61 unpublished poems written from 1946-83 and the second section provides 22 unpublished poems written from 1938-45. Some critics considered the arrangement eccentric. In 2003, Thwaite prepared a new edition with a different arrangement. He also corrected typos and added back poem titles. It does not contain the vast volume of unpublished and incomplete work included in the 1988 edition, and orders the  published poems in Larkin's preferred arrangement according to his four published collections. Additionally, it includes two appendices containing all the other poems Larkin published. Appendices. The 2003 edition includes Larkin's uncollected poems in two appendices. The first appendix contains poems published in magazines and journals before 1972, but not subsequently collected by Larkin. The contents of the privately printed "XX Poems" (1951) are deemed to be in this category. Appendix I: Uncollected Poems 1940-1972 Appendix II: Uncollected Poems 1974-1984 The second appendix contains those poems published after "High Windows", Larkin's final volume. Collected Poems (Larkin