The Whitsun Weddings

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The Whitsun Weddings
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First edition
Author Philip Larkin
LanguageEnglish
Genre Poetry
Publisher Faber & Faber
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Published in English
1964
ISBN 9780571097104
Preceded by The Less Deceived  
Followed by High Windows  

The Whitsun Weddings is a collection of 32 poems by Philip Larkin. [1] [2] It was first published by Faber in the United Kingdom on 28 February 1964. [2] It was a commercial success, by the standards of poetry publication, selling 4,000 copies on its first run. [3] A United States edition appeared some seven months later. In Larkin's lifetime, he would sell 100,000 paperback copies. [4]

Contents

It contains many of Larkin's best known poems, [2] such as "The Whitsun Weddings", "Days", [5] "Mr Bleaney", "MCMXIV", [5] and "An Arundel Tomb". [5]

Poems

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Jamie, Doward (10 May 2014). "Larkin's Whitsun Weddings celebrated with 50th-anniversary train ride". The Guardian . Retrieved 27 June 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 "Faber Book Club 8: The Whitsun Weddings by Philip Larkin". Faber & Faber . 9 August 2022. Retrieved 27 June 2025. The Whitsun Weddings was Philip Larkin's third collection of poems, the first to be published by Faber. It came out on 28 February 1964...containing as it does some of Larkin's most well-known and quoted poems.
  3. ↑ Hourican, Bridget (October 2009). "Monteith, Charles Montgomery". Dictionary of Irish Biography . Royal Irish Academy. doi:10.3318/dib.005891.v1. ...he corresponded with the virtually unknown Larkin for a decade (1953–63) until he was released from his contract with Marvell Press, leaving Faber free to publish The Whitsun weddings (1963), which sold 4,000 copies on its first run.
  4. ↑ Nash, Andrew; Potter, Jane (8 June 2019). "8 - Literature". In Nash, Andrew; Squires, Claire; Willison, I. R. (eds.). The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain. Vol. 7. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9780511862489.009. Nevertheless, The Whitsun weddings would sell over 100,000 paperback copies in Larkin's lifetime.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "From the Archive: The Whitsun Weddings First Edition". Faber & Faber . 5 August 2022. Retrieved 27 June 2025.
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