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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 ...
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.
Philip Arthur Larkin (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist, and librarian. His first book of poetry, The North Ship, was published in 1945, followed by two novels, Jill (1946) and A Girl in Winter (1947).
The Whitsun Weddings: The Explosion: 1970-01-05: High Windows: Faith Healing: 1960-05-10: The Whitsun Weddings: Far Out: 1959-02-01: Collected Poems 1988: Femmes Damnées: 1943 (best known date) Collected Poems 2003: Fiction and the Reading Public: 1950-02-25: Collected Poems 2003: First Sight: 1956-03-03: The Whitsun Weddings: For Sidney ...
"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.
Larkin's three most popular and celebrated collections (The Less Deceived, The Witsun Weddings, and The High Window) fall in the first part of the book, but account for just 85 poems, with 87 poems uncollected (or appearing only in the privately printed XX Poems) of which 61 were previously unpublished, a handful of which were clearly unfinished.
Much of Larkin's writing was heavily influenced by his relationship with Brennan, including his collection The Whitsun Weddings, which he once described as Brennan's book. [24] Brennan and Larkin's relationship is detailed extensively by Brennan herself in The Philip Larkin I Knew, which was published in 2002. Brennan's book speaks of both the ...
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. [1]