The Whitsun Weddings (book)

The Whitsun Weddings

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

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'.