The Whitsun Weddings

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