Description
Philip Larkin’s first mature collection, *The Less Deceived*, brings together poems that find profound significance in the ordinary: everyday places, modest hopes, aging, solitude, love, and the rituals of communal life. With characteristic precision, wit, and understated irony, Larkin examines the gap between youthful illusions and hard-won understanding, while allowing moments of genuine tenderness and seriousness to emerge. From the quietly affectionate “Born Yesterday” to the searching meditation “Church Going,” these poems balance skepticism with wonder and establish Larkin as a defining voice of postwar English poetry.
Available Editions
paperback
Marvell Press
Published Jan 1, 1974
45 pages
ISBN: 9780900533068
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Details
First Published
1955
Language
eng
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