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Philip Larkin • 30 Items / 11 Books, 2 Articles, 8 Reviews, 9 Poems
The Less Deceived (1956)
by Philip Larkin
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    New Lines in English Poetry (3 Reviews)
    John Holloway
    Brides of Reason, by Donald Davie
    1. Brides of Reason by Donald Davie
    2. The Less Deceived by Philip Larkin
    3. Poems by Robert Conquest
    The Hudson Review, Winter 1956, pp. 592-597
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    Tuning in on Albion (3 Reviews)
    M.L. Rosenthal
    John Betjeman's Collected Poems, by Lord Birkenhead and John Betjeman
    1. John Betjeman's Collected Poems by Lord Birkenhead and John Betjeman
    2. The Less Deceived by Philip Larkin
    3. Seeing is Believing by Charles Tomlinson
    The Nation, May 16, 1959, pp. 457-458
  3. Books
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    Verse (3 Reviews)
    Louise Bogan
    The Less Deceived, by Philip Larkin
    1. The Less Deceived by Philip Larkin
    2. For the Union Dead by Robert Lowell
    3. Collected Poems by Patrick Kavanagh
    The New Yorker, April 10, 1965, pp. 193-198
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    A Small Green Insect, etc.,etc. (4 Reviews)
    David Wright
    The Less Deceived, by Philip Larkin
    1. The Less Deceived by Philip Larkin
    2. Brides of Reason by Donald Davie
    3. Bread Rather Than Blossoms by D.J. Enright
    4. New Lines by Robert Conquest
    Encounter, October 1956, pp. 74-77
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    Verse (5 Reviews)
    Louise Bogan
    Poetry To-Day, by Geoffrey Moore
    1. Poetry To-Day by Geoffrey Moore
    2. A Word Carved on a Sill by John Wain
    3. A Case of Samples by Kingsley Amis
    4. The Less Deceived by Philip Larkin
    5. Brutus's Orchard by Roy Fuller
    The New Yorker, September 13, 1958, pp. 158-162
  6. Books
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    Poetry Chronicle (5 Reviews)
    Alfred Alvarez
    Fighting Terms, by Thom Gunn
    1. Fighting Terms by Thom Gunn
    2. The Less Deceived by Philip Larkin
    3. A Crackling of Thorns by John Hollander
    4. Overland to the Islands by Denise Levertov
    5. Seeing is Believing by Charles Tomlinson
    The Partisan Review, Fall 1958, pp. 603-609
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    SR's Quarterly Roundup of Poetry (17 Reviews)
    John Ciardi
    The Dual Site, by Michael Hamburger
    1. The Dual Site by Michael Hamburger
    2. The Sleeping Gypsy, and Other Poems by George P. Garrett
    3. Poems by Emma Swan
    4. In the Midnight Wood by Cecil Hemley
    5. A Crackling of Thorns by John Hollander
    6. The Two Freedoms by Jon Silkin
    7. Mirrors and Windows by Howard Nemerov
    8. Selected Poems, 1928-1958 by Stanley Kunitz
    9. Selected Poems and New by Jose Garcia Villa
    10. Poemscapes by Kenneth Patchen
    11. A Laughter in the Mind by Irving Layton
    12. The Less Deceived by Philip Larkin
    13. Seeing is Believing by Charles Tomlinson
    14. The Triumph of the Muse, and Other Poems by John Heath-Stubbs
    15. Sheepfold Hill by Conrad Aiken
    16. Poems of a Jew by Karl Shapiro
    17. Seamarks by Saint-John Perse
    The Saturday Review, September 27, 1958, pp. 17-18