The Less Deceived

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The Less Deceived is a 1955 poetry collection by Philip Larkin that established his reputation for bleakly realistic, formally controlled verse about postwar English life.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
poetry collection
author Philip Larkin
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
genre poetry
hasInfluenceOn reputation of Philip Larkin as a leading Movement poet
hasPoem Age
At Grass
Born Yesterday
Church Going
Coming
Deceptions
Dry-Point
Going
I Remember, I Remember
I See a Girl Dragged by the Wrists
If, My Darling
Lines on a Young Lady’s Photograph Album
Next, Please
No Road
Places, Loved Ones
Poetry of Departures
Reasons for Attendance
Toads
Toads Revisited
linked to: Toads

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Wants
Wedding-Wind
Whatever Happened? (In memoriam W. R.)
Wires
language English
literaryPeriod postwar British poetry
notableFor bleak realism
depiction of postwar English life
formally controlled verse
numberOfPoems 29
publicationYear 1955
publisher The Marvell Press
setting postwar England
significance established Philip Larkin’s reputation as a major poet
style colloquial diction
regular stanza forms
strict metrical control
theme disillusionment
ordinary life
religion and doubt
time and mortality

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Philip Larkin notableWork The Less Deceived
The Whitsun Weddings follows The Less Deceived
Church Going firstPublishedIn The Less Deceived
Church Going collection The Less Deceived