The North Ship
eBook - ePub

The North Ship

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eBook - ePub

The North Ship

About this book

The North Ship, Philip Larkin's earliest volume of verse, was first published in August 1945. The introduction, by Larkin himself, explains the circumstances of its publication and the influences which shaped its contents.

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9780571263233
Edition
0
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
European Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. I: All catches alight
  8. II: This was your place of birth
  9. III: The moon is full tonight
  10. IV: Dawn
  11. V: Conscript
  12. VI: Kick up the fire
  13. VII: The horns of the morning
  14. VIII: Winter
  15. IX: Climbing the hill within the deafening wind
  16. X: Within the dream you said
  17. XI: Night-Music
  18. XII: Like the train’s beat
  19. XIII: I put my mouth
  20. XIV: Nursery Tale
  21. XV: The Dancer
  22. XVI: The bottle is drunk out by one
  23. XVII: To write one song, I said
  24. XVIII: If grief could burn out
  25. XIX: Ugly Sister
  26. XX: I see a girl dragged by the wrists
  27. XXI: I dreamed of an out-thrust arm of land
  28. XXII: One man walking a deserted platform
  29. XXIII: If hands could free you, heart
  30. XXIV: Love, we must part now: do not let it be
  31. XXV: Morning has spread again
  32. XXVI: This is the first thing
  33. XXVII: Heaviest of flowers, the head
  34. XXVIII: Is it for now or for always
  35. XXIX: Pour away that youth
  36. XXX: So through that unripe day you bore your head
  37. XXXI: The North Ship
  38. XXXII: Waiting for breakfast, while she brushed her hair
  39. About the Author
  40. Copyright