The Whitsun Weddings

The Whitsun Weddings is a collection of 32 poems by Philip Larkin. It was first published by Faber and 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

==See also==

* List of poems by Philip Larkin

* 1964 in poetry