The Whitsun Weddings

The Whitsun Weddings

"The Whitsun Weddings" is a collection of 32 poems by Philip Larkin. It was first published by Faber and 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 U.S. 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'.

Contents

* 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

ee also

*List of poems by Philip Larkin


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