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		The Whitsun Weddings 	First edition

	Author	Philip Larkin
	Country	United Kingdom
	Language	English
	Genre	Poetry
	Publisher	Faber and Faber
	Published in English
	1964
	Preceded by	The Less Deceived 
	Followed by	High Windows 


This article is about a collection of poems. For the poem by this title, see The Whitsun Weddings (poem).

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[edit]

	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[edit]

	List of poems by Philip Larkin
	1964 in poetry






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Philip Larkin

	Poetry collections	
	The North Ship (1945)
	The Less Deceived (1955)
	The Whitsun Weddings (1964)
	High Windows (1974)




	Posthumous collections	
	Collected Poems (1988 and 2003)




	Poems	
	"The Whitsun Weddings" (1964)
	"An Arundel Tomb" (1964)
	"Mr Bleaney" (1955)
	"This Be The Verse" (1974)
	"Days" (1964)
	"MCMXIV (1964)




	Other publications	
	Jill (1945)
	A Girl in Winter (1947)
	The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse (1973)
	Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940–1985 (1992)




	Related	
	List of poems by Philip Larkin
	Larkin at Sixty (1982)
	Philip Larkin Society
	Larkin 25
	Relationships that influenced Philip Larkin
	Mr Larkin's Awkward Day
	Brunette Coleman (juvenile pseudonym)














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		Categories: 	1964 poetry books
	English poetry collections
	Poetry by Philip Larkin
	Faber and Faber books




	




	





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