The Whitsun Weddings
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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]
