The Whitsun Weddings (book)

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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'.

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• Here
• Mr Bleaney [1]
• Nothing To Be Said [2]
• Love Songs in Age [3]
• Naturally the Foundation will Bear Your Expenses
• Broadcast
• Faith Healing
• For Sidney Bechet [4]
• Home is so Sad [5]
• Toads Revisited [6]
• Water [7]
• The Whitsun Weddings [8]
• Self's the Man
• Take One Home for the Kiddies [9]
• Days [10]
• MCMXIV [11]
• Talking in Bed
• The Large Cool Store
• A Study of Reading Habits [12]
• As Bad as a Mile
• Ambulances [13]
• The Importance of Elsewhere [14]
• Sunny Prestatyn [15]
• First Sight
• Dockery and Son [16]
• Ignorance [17]
• Reference Back
• Wild Oats [18]
• Essential Beauty
• Send No Money [19]
• Afternoons [20]
• An Arundel Tomb [21]