The Whitsun Weddings
Collection of poems by Philip Larkin
First edition | |
Author | Philip Larkin |
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Language | English |
Genre | Poetry |
Publisher | Faber and Faber |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Published in English | 1964 |
Preceded by | The Less Deceived |
Followed by | High Windows |
The Whitsun Weddings is a collection of 32 poems by Philip Larkin. It was first published by Faber in the United Kingdom on 28 February 1964. It was a commercial success, by the standards of poetry publication, with the first 4,000 copies being sold within two months. A United States edition appeared some seven months later.
It contains many of Larkin's best known poems, such as "The Whitsun Weddings", "Days", "Mr Bleaney", "MCMXIV", and "An Arundel Tomb".
Poems
- Here
- Mr Bleaney
- Nothing To Be Said
- Love Songs in Age
- Naturally the Foundation will Bear Your Expenses
- Broadcast
- Faith Healing
- For Sidney Bechet
- Home is so Sad
- Toads Revisited
- Water
- The Whitsun Weddings
- Self's the Man
- Take One Home for the Kiddies
- Days
- MCMXIV
- Talking in Bed
- The Large Cool Store
- A Study of Reading Habits
- As Bad as a Mile
- Ambulances
- The Importance of Elsewhere
- Sunny Prestatyn
- First Sight
- Dockery and Son
- Ignorance
- Reference Back
- Wild Oats
- Essential Beauty
- Send No Money
- Afternoons
- An Arundel Tomb
See also
- List of poems by Philip Larkin
- 1964 in poetry
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Philip Larkin
- The North Ship (1945)
- The Less Deceived (1955)
- The Whitsun Weddings (1964)
- High Windows (1974)
- Collected Poems (1988 and 2003)
- "The Whitsun Weddings" (1964)
- "An Arundel Tomb" (1964)
- "Mr Bleaney" (1955)
- "This Be The Verse" (1974)
- "Days" (1964)
- "MCMXIV" (1964)
- "Aubade" (1977)
- Jill (1946)
- A Girl in Winter (1947)
- The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse (1973)
- Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940–1985 (1992)