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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. Larkin was unaware that postal ...
- Philip Larkin
- 1966
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…
The Less Deceived. Philip Larkin. 4.04. 558 ratings64 reviews. Philip Larkin's second collection, The Less Deceived was published by The Marvell Press in 1955, and now appears for the first time in Faber covers. The eye can hardly pick them out. From the cold shade they shelter in, Till wind distresses tail and mane;
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I was struck by their tunefulness and their feeling, and the sense that here was somebody writing about things I was beginning to feel myself. I don’t think Hardy, as a poet, is a poet for young people. I know it sounds ridiculous to say I wasn’t young at twenty-five or twenty-six, but at least I was beginning to find out what life was ...
- Salem K. Hassan
- 1988
“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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
any claims to policy or belief: this (The Less Deceived) would however give a certain amount of sad-eyed (and clear-eyed) real ism, and if they [i.e. readers] did pick up the context they might grasp my fundamentally passive attitude to poetry (and life too, I suppose) which believes that the agent is always more deceived
The Less Deceived. Chapter. pp 43–68. Cite this chapter. Download book PDF. Andrew Swarbrick. 29 Accesses. 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.
