Description
Philip Larkin’s debut poetry collection explores the uncertain courses of love, desire, solitude, and human experience through images of journeys, landscapes, and departure. Its title poem’s three ships become haunting emblems of divergent paths in life—some marked by struggle, some by fulfillment, and others by loss—while the surrounding poems deepen this meditation on choice and fate. Written in a lyrical, atmospheric style that blends romantic imagery with an emerging modern sensibility, the collection reveals the early work of a major twentieth-century poet.
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paperback
Faber
Published Jan 1, 1973
48 pages
ISBN: 0571105033
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Details
First Published
1945
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The North Ship by Philip Larkin.