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Original Title:	Whitsun Weddings
ISBN:	0571097103 (ISBN13: 9780571097104)
Edition Language:	English

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Philip Larkin (1922-1985) remains England's best-loved poet - a writer matchlessly capable of evoking his native land and of touching all readers from the most sophisticated intellectual to the proverbial common reader. The late John Betjeman observed that 'this tenderly observant poet writes clearly, rhythmically, and thoughtfully about what all of us can understand'. Behind this modest description lies a poet who made greatness look, in Milton's prescription, 'simple, sensuous and passionate'.

This collection, first published in 1967, contains many of his best-loved poems, including The Whitsun Weddings, An Arundel Tomb, Days, Mr Bleaney and MCMXIV.

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Title	:	The Whitsun Weddings
Author	:	Philip Larkin
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 46 pages
Published	:	May 8th 2001 by Faber Faber (first published 1964)
Categories	:	Poetry. Classics. Fiction. Literature

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This cost me a mere 50 cents!!!!And I know it will contain an absolute wealthof plain-speaking insight on the daily grind,done with irony, wit and empathy.Larkin' with Larkin!!!!POST-READ:Like ALL poetry books one knows one has never done with it, as the text and thought is usually so tightly packed with allusions, resonances and plain info as well as skills of style that it is a Continual Feast on so many levels.And so many returns (one just hopes one will have life and time!!) will hopefully

For such a short book, Whitsun Weddings runs the gamut from soft pastoral with an earthy sense of humor in the beginning to something with a harder edge by the end, complete with a ripped poster decorated with cock and balls. Some of the poems were very good, some seemed to end too soon. Nothing really seemed to have been chosen to go together, they are a hodge-podge, thrown together at will. By the end of the book I wasn't sure what I was supposed to feel, if anything. That being said, it

Essential Beauty and Sunny Prestatyn are my favourites. They are of similar subject, advertising posters/billboards.Sunny Prestatyn is a marvel. Twenty four lines that describe what happens to a holiday poster over a period of time, probably over a few weeks or a month. The poem paints a brilliant description of the real world. The line 'She was too good for this life' is droll, and tragic, but the dry humour gets me every time. That poem is a novel and a movie. Genius.

From BBC radio 4 Extra:A verse drama by Kathleen Jamie, based on the poem by Philip Larkin.On a Whit weekend at the end of the 1950s, Philip Larkin caught a train from Hull to London which was boarded by a number of newly-wed couples.He turned his observations about them into one of his best-known poems.40 years later, three of the couples and the daughter of the fourth look back on the day to consider if its promises have been fulfilled.Audrey ...... Dame Eileen AtkinsPaula ...... Saskia Reeves

Verse from the shining crabass of 20th Century British lit

When I read poetry, I avoid the doorstoppers, those formidable weighty volumes of collected poems, preferring instead slim volumes of verse which distill the quintessence of a poets development over a few years time. Perhaps it was inevitable, then, that I should love Whitsun Weddings (1964): 46 pages, the product of nine years of inspiration and revision. The result? Almost three dozen poems, each perfect in its own way, a dozen of which will probably be remembered as long as English verse is

I studies this collection at A Level alongside Dannie Abse's 'Welsh Retrospective' and at first found myself hating Larkin and just wanting him to cheer up a bit. But when you look into the poems, I actually came to really like Larkin. I thought some poems were hilarious and some really moved me. Home Is So Sad is one of my favourites in the collection, it's so real and everyone can relate to it. I also loved Talking In Bed and A Study of Reading Habits! Every time I re-read a poem, I feel