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The Less Deceived, first published in 1955, was Philip Larkin's first mature collection of poetry, having been preceded by the derivative North Ship (1945) from The Fortune Press and a privately printed collection, a small pamphlet titled XX Poems, which Larkin mailed to literary critics and authors.
- Philip Larkin
- 1966
By XX Poems, the privately printed volume in 1951, the mature Larkin has begun to appear; with The Less Deceived (which contained more than half of the XX Poems) he has clearly arrived. For many of Larkin's admirers, this remains his finest volume. Type. Chapter. Information.
He became well known with The Less Deceived (1955), a volume of verse the title of which suggests Larkin’s reaction and that of other British writers who then came into notice (e.g., Kingsley Amis and John Wain) against the political enthusiasms of the 1930s and what they saw as the…
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“The Less Deceived” Philip Larkin (born August 9, 1922, Coventry, Warwickshire, England—died December 2, 1985, Kingston upon Hull) was the most representative and highly regarded of the poets who gave expression to a clipped, antiromantic sensibility prevalent in English verse in the 1950s.
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Abstract. The Untitled Poems which Larkin sent to George Hartley for the Marvell Press early in 1955 contained thirteen poems carried over from Larkin’s XX Poems which had been privately printed in Belfast in 1951. Clearly, these were the poems in which he had most confidence (only two poems survive from In the Grip of Light to reappear in ...
The mature Philip Larkin style – that of the detached, sometimes lugubrious, sometimes tender observer of “ordinary people doing ordinary things” (Jean Hartley) – first appears in his second collection, The Less Deceived, published ten years later.
