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  2. The Whitsun Weddings (poem) - Wikipedia

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    The Whitsun Weddings" is one of the best known poems by British poet Philip Larkin. It was written and rewritten and finally published in the 1964 collection of poems, also called The Whitsun Weddings. It is one of three poems that Larkin wrote about train journeys. [1] The poem comprises eight stanzas of ten lines, making it one of his longest ...

  3. The Whitsun Weddings - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. List of poems by Philip Larkin - Wikipedia

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    The Whitsun Weddings: Success Story: 1954-03-11: Collected Poems 2003: Summer Nocturne: 1939 (best known date) Collected Poems 1988: Sunny Prestatyn: 1962-10 (best known date) The Whitsun Weddings: Sympathy in White Major: 1967-08-31: High Windows: Take One Home for the Kiddies: 1960-08-13: The Whitsun Weddings: Talking in Bed: 1960-08-10: The ...

  5. An Arundel Tomb - Wikipedia

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    "An Arundel Tomb" is a poem by Philip Larkin, written and published in 1956, and subsequently included in his 1964 collection The Whitsun Weddings. It describes the poet's response to seeing a pair of recumbent medieval tomb effigies with their hands joined in Chichester Cathedral.

  6. Philip Larkin - Wikipedia

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    Three of his poems, "This Be The Verse", "The Whitsun Weddings" and "An Arundel Tomb", featured in the Nation's Top 100 Poems as voted for by viewers of the BBC's Bookworm in 1995. [142] Media interest in Larkin has increased in the twenty-first century.

  7. Whitsun - Wikipedia

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    1961: Sylvia Plath wrote a poem called "Whitsun", published posthumously in 1971. 1964: The Whitsun Weddings is a poem and the title of a collection by Philip Larkin. 1965: "Whitsunday in Kirchstetten" is a poem by W. H. Auden, from his collection About the House. 1973: Thomas Pynchon refers to Whitsun in his novel Gravity's Rainbow (section 2 ...

  8. Mr Bleaney - Wikipedia

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    Mr Bleaney" is a poem by British poet Philip Larkin, written in May 1955. It was first published in The Listener on 8 September 1955 and later included in Larkin's 1964 anthology The Whitsun Weddings. The speaker in the poem is renting a room and compares his situation to that of its previous occupant, a Mr Bleaney.

  9. MCMXIV - Wikipedia

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    "MCMXIV" (1914) is a poem written by English poet Philip Larkin. It was first published in the book The Whitsun Weddings in 1964. The poem, a single sentence spread over four stanzas, begins by describing what is seemingly a photograph of volunteers lining up to enlist, and goes on to reflect on the momentous changes in England that would result from the First World War, ending, 'Never such ...

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