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, selling 4,000 copies on its first run. A United States edition appeared some seven months later. In Larkin's lifetime, he would sell 100,000 paperback copies.
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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