The Whitsun Weddings (4 page)
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Authors: Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin was born in Coventry in 1922 and was educated at King Henry VIII School, Coventry, and St John’s College, Oxford. As well as his volumes of poems, which include
The Whitsun Weddings
and
High Windows
, he wrote two novels,
Jill
and
A Girl in Winter
, and two books of collected journalism:
All What Jazz: A Record Library
, and
Required Writing: Miscellaneous Prose
. He worked as a librarian at the University of Hull from 1955 until his death in 1985. He was the best-loved poet of his generation, and the recipient of innumerable honours, including the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, and the WH Smith Award.
In the Poetry Firsts collection
Simon Armitage –
Kid
Wendy Cope –
Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis
Alice Oswald –
Dart
Don Paterson –
Nil Nil
Sylvia Plath –
Ariel
First published in 1964
by Faber and Faber Ltd
Bloomsbury House
74–77 Great Russell Street
London WC1B 3DA
This ebook edition first published in 2010
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