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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 both XX Poems and The Less Deceived: they are ‘Going’ and ‘Wedding-Wind’) and which he regarded as correctives to the excesses of The North Ship. Apart from the two In the Grip of Light poems, every poem in The Less Deceived was completed after December 1949: that is, they represent the poems he wrote just prior to and following his move to Belfast. The burial of The North Ship and In the Grip of Light was all but complete.
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Notes
Quoted in David Lodge, After Bakhtin: Essays on Criticism and Fiction (London: Routledge, 1990) p. 98.
Graham Holderness, ‘Reading “Deceptions” — a dramatic conversation’, Critical Survey, vol. 1, no. 2 (1989) pp. 122–30.
Simon Petch, The Art of Philip Larkin (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1981) p. 60.
Larkin in Poet’s Choice, ed. Paul Engle and Joseph Langland (New York: Dial Press, 1962) p. 202.
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Swarbrick, A. (1995). The Less Deceived. In: Out of Reach. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24061-6_3
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