A new treasury of early verse. Philip Larkin was one of the most admired and loved English poets of the twentieth century. His Collected Poems has become essential reading on any bookshelf, covering his four published volumes - The North Ship (1945), The Less Deceived (1955), The Whitsun Weddings (1964) and High Windows (1974). But Larkin was a prolific writer in his youth, and wrote over 250 poems in the years leading up to his first collection. Drawing on the pamphlets, manuscripts and workbooks from 1938-46, the Early Poems reveal, for the first time, the formative writings and literary origins of this most gifted of poets.