Who wrote the poetry collection 'The Whitsun Weddings'?
"Collected Poems (Larkin) Collected Poems is the title of a posthumous collection of Philip Larkin's poetry edited by Anthony Thwaite and published by Faber and Faber. He released two notably different editions in 1988 and 2003, the first of which also includes previously unpublished work. Both editions include the contents of Larkin's collections ""The North Ship"", ""The Less Deceived"", ""The Whitsun Weddings"" and ""High Windows"", plus other material. For the 1988 edition, editor Anthony Thwaite included all of Philip Larkin's published poetry as well as unpublished and incomplete work. Thwaite organized the poems in chronological order, meaning that poems from"
"nation's best-loved poet"" in a survey by the Poetry Book Society, and in 2008 ""The Times"" named Larkin as the greatest British post-war writer. Three of his poems, ""This Be The Verse"", ""The Whitsun Weddings"" and ""An Arundel Tomb"", featured in the ""Nation's Top 100 Poems"" as voted for by viewers of the BBC's ""Bookworm"" in 1995. Media interest in Larkin has increased in the twenty-first century. Larkin's collection ""The Whitsun Weddings"" is one of the available poetry texts in the AQA English Literature A Level syllabus, while ""High Windows"" is offered by the OCR board. Buses in Hull displayed"
"of the city. It was officially opened on 20 August 2018, with a Van Morrison concert. Hull has attracted the attention of poets to the extent that the Australian author Peter Porter has described it as ""the most poetic city in England"". Philip Larkin set many of his poems in Hull; these include ""The Whitsun Weddings"", ""Toads"", and ""Here"". Scottish-born Douglas Dunn's ""Terry Street"", a portrait of working-class Hull life, is one of the outstanding poetry collections of the 1970s. Dunn forged close associations with such Hull poets as Peter Didsbury and Sean O'Brien; the works of some of these"
"White Buildings ""For the historic buildings in New York City see Tribeca#Places"" White Buildings was the first collection (1926) of poetry by Hart Crane, an American modernist poet, critical to both lyrical and language poetic traditions. The book features well-known pieces like ""For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen,"" the ""Voyages"" series, and some of his most famous lyrics including ""My Grandmother's Love Letters"" and ""Chaplinesque."" Harold Bloom has argued that this collection alone, if perhaps taken with his later lyric, 'The Broken Tower,' could have secured Crane's reputation as one of the best American poets of the 20th century."
"Whitsun Weddings"", 1964), Ted Hughes (1930–1998) (""The Hawk in the Rain"", 1957) and Irishman (born Northern Ireland) Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) (""Death of a Naturalist"", 1966). Northern Ireland has also produced a number of other significant poets, including Derek Mahon and Paul Muldoon. In the 1960s and 1970s Martian poetry aimed to break the grip of 'the familiar', by describing ordinary things in unfamiliar ways, as though, for example, through the eyes of a Martian. Poets most closely associated with it are Craig Raine and Christopher Reid. Another literary movement in this period was the British Poetry Revival was a wide-reaching"
"had a ""tenderly nursed sense of defeat"". In 1962 A. Alvarez, the compiler of an anthology entitled ""The New Poetry"", famously accused Larkin of ""gentility, neo-Georgian pastoralism, and a failure to deal with the violent extremes of contemporary life"". When ""The Whitsun Weddings"" was released Alvarez continued his attacks in a review in ""The Observer"", complaining of the ""drab circumspection"" of Larkin's ""commonplace"" subject-matter. Praise outweighed criticism; John Betjeman felt Larkin had ""closed the gap between poetry and the public which the experiments and obscurity of the last fifty years have done so much to widen."" In ""The New York"
"the following year of ""The Whitsun Weddings"", the volume which cemented his reputation; almost immediately after its publication he was granted a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Literature. In the years that followed Larkin wrote several of his most famous poems, followed in the 1970s by a series of longer and more sober poems, including ""The Building"" and ""The Old Fools"". All of these appeared in Larkin's final collection, ""High Windows"", which was published in June 1974. Its more direct use of language meant that it did not meet with uniform praise; nonetheless it sold over twenty thousand copies"
"George Faunce Whitcomb George Faunce Whitcomb (December 1, 1893 – October 12, 1969), was an American poet, known best for three books on poetry: ""Eagle Quills"" in 1919, ""Jewels Of Romance"" in 1922, and ""Serpent’s Credo"" in 1931. He was a publisher, epigrammatist, and long-time resident of Carmel Valley, California. George Faunce Whitcomb was born on December 1, 1893, in Roxbury, Massachusetts. He was the son of Harlan Page Whitcomb and Emily Crockett Faunce. Whitcomb attended Roxbury College in Roxbury, Massachusetts. He attended Harvard University from 1912-14. On June 21, 1917, Whitcomb married Mary Louise Robinson at her family home"
"at the university, on a hot Whitsun Saturday afternoon. It has always been supposed the poem was based on an actual train journey Larkin made in 1955 on Whitsun Saturday, a day which was popular for weddings at that time though since there was a rail strike on that weekend Larkin scholar John Osborne now thinks the journey an unlikely one to have taken place. Larkin's letters mention two journeys, one to Grantham (not at Whit, some weddings), and one to London (not at Whit, no weddings), that may have been conflated in the poem. The poem's narrator describes the"
"An Arundel Tomb ""An Arundel Tomb"" is a c. 1956 poem by Philip Larkin published in 1964 in his collection ""The Whitsun Weddings"". It describes the poet's emotional response to seeing a pair of recumbent medieval tomb effigies, with their hands joined, in Chichester Cathedral. The poem comprises 7 verses of 6 lines each, each rhyming ""abbcac"". The effigies in Chichester Cathedral are now widely (but not quite certainly) identified as those of Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel (d. 1376) and his second wife, Eleanor of Lancaster (d. 1372). The couple were buried in the chapter house of Lewes"
"common critical view from the 1930s onward ranked him as one of the three major twentieth-century British poets, and heir to Eliot and Yeats. New poets starting their careers in the 1950s and 1960s include Philip Larkin (1922–85) (""The Whitsun Weddings"", 1964), Ted Hughes (1930–98) (""The Hawk in the Rain"", 1957) and Irishman (Northern Ireland) Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) (""Death of a Naturalist"", 1966). Northern Ireland has also produced a number of other significant poets, including Derek Mahon and Paul Muldoon. In the 1960s and 1970s Martian poetry aimed to break the grip of 'the familiar', by describing ordinary things in"
"2010. A larger-than-life-size bronze statue of Larkin by sculptor Martin Jennings was unveiled at Hull Paragon Interchange on 2 December 2010, closing the Larkin 25 events. It is inscribed, ""That Whitsun I was late getting away"", from the poem, ""The Whitsun Weddings"". Funding for the £100,000 statue, designed by Martin Jennings, was raised at charity events and auctions with support from Hull City Council. The unveiling was accompanied by Nathaniel Seaman's ""Fanfare for Larkin"", composed for the occasion. Five plaques containing Larkin's poems were added to the floor near the statue in 2011. In December 2012 a memorial bench was"
"1885 Whitman married Helena Mary Bing at Hammersmith. Attribution Alfred Charles Whitman Alfred Charles Whitman (1860–1910) was an English writer on engravings, known for his books on the works of Valentine Green, Samuel William Reynolds, Samuel Cousins, and Charles Turner. The youngest son of Edwin Whitman, a grocer, and his wife Fanny, he was born at Hammersmith on 12 October 1860, and was educated at St. Mark's College School, Chelsea. On leaving school he was employed by the London firm of Henry Dawson & Sons, typo-etching company, of Farringdon Street and Chiswick, with whom he remained till he was appointed"
"extracts from his poems in 2010. In 1959, the Marvell Press published ""Listen presents Philip Larkin reading The Less Deceived"" (Listen LPV1), an LP record on which Larkin recites all the poems from ""The Less Deceived"" in the order they appear in the printed volume. This was followed, in 1965, by ""Philip Larkin reads and comments on The Whitsun Weddings"" (Listen LPV6), again on the Marvell Press's record label (though the printed volume was published by Faber and Faber). Once again the poems are read in the order in which they appear in the printed volume, but with Larkin including"
"The Lucy poems The Lucy poems are a series of five poems composed by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth (1770–1850) between 1798 and 1801. All but one were first published during 1800 in the second edition of ""Lyrical Ballads"", a collaboration between Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge that was both Wordsworth's first major publication and a milestone in the early English Romantic movement. In the series, Wordsworth sought to write unaffected English verse infused with abstract ideals of beauty, nature, love, longing and death. The poem was written during a short period while the poet lived in Germany. Although"
"cared for the poem, because he had muddled up his hands and gauntlets (he implies that the Earl is using his left hand, rather than his right, to clasp his wife's hand), and because the monument itself was a Victorian restoration. An Arundel Tomb ""An Arundel Tomb"" is a c. 1956 poem by Philip Larkin published in 1964 in his collection ""The Whitsun Weddings"". It describes the poet's emotional response to seeing a pair of recumbent medieval tomb effigies, with their hands joined, in Chichester Cathedral. The poem comprises 7 verses of 6 lines each, each rhyming ""abbcac"". The effigies"
"age of 77. She is buried in the churchyard of Weedon Lois in Northamptonshire. Sitwell's papers are held at the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin. Sitwell published her first poem ""The Drowned Suns"" in the ""Daily Mirror"" in 1913 and between 1916 and 1921 she edited ""Wheels"", an annual poetic anthology compiled with her brothers—a literary collaboration generally called ""the Sitwells"". In 1929 she published ""Gold Coast Customs"", a poem about the artificiality of human behaviour and the barbarism that lies beneath the surface. The poem was written in the rhythms of the tom-tom and"
"the death of the poet Philip Larkin with the Larkin 25 Festival. This included the popular ""Larkin with Toads"" public art event. The 40 Larkin toads were displayed around Hull and later sold off in a charity auction. A charity appeal raised funds to cast a life-size bronze statue of Philip Larkin, to a design by Martin Jennings, at Hull Paragon Interchange. The statue was unveiled at a ceremony attended by the Lord Mayor of Hull on 2 December 2010, the 25th anniversary of Larkin's death. It bears an inscription drawn from the first line of Larkin's poem, 'The Whitsun"
"Vernon Watkins Vernon Phillips Watkins (27 June 1906 – 8 October 1967) was a Welsh poet, translator and painter. He was a close friend of fellow poet Dylan Thomas, who described him as ""the most profound and greatly accomplished Welshman writing poems in English"". Vernon Watkins was born in Maesteg in Glamorgan, and brought up mainly in Swansea. His birth coincided with slight earth tremors; another baby born that night was christened John Earthquake Jones. Watkins' mother was Sarah (""Sally"") daughter of Esther Thomas and James Phillips of Sarnau, Meidrim. Her father, a Congregationalist, was reputed to know most of"
"Ruth Whitman Ruth Whitman (1922–1999) was an American poet, translator, and professor. Her eighth and last book is ""Hatshepshut, Speak to me"" (Wayne State University Press, 1992), and her most well-known and well-regarded is ""Tamsen Donner: A Woman’s Journey"" (Alice James Books, 1977). She also translated poetry from Yiddish, and wrote the beloved poem ""Sisters."" Her honors and awards include a Senior Fulbright Writer-in-Residence Fellowship to Hebrew University in Jerusalem, a Bunting Institute Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship. Her poems were published in literary journals and magazines including ""AGNI"" and ""Ploughshares."" She was an early"
"to Cedric Whitman and her second to Firman Houghton. Full-length Poetry Collections Translations Non-fiction Ruth Whitman Ruth Whitman (1922–1999) was an American poet, translator, and professor. Her eighth and last book is ""Hatshepshut, Speak to me"" (Wayne State University Press, 1992), and her most well-known and well-regarded is ""Tamsen Donner: A Woman’s Journey"" (Alice James Books, 1977). She also translated poetry from Yiddish, and wrote the beloved poem ""Sisters."" Her honors and awards include a Senior Fulbright Writer-in-Residence Fellowship to Hebrew University in Jerusalem, a Bunting Institute Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship. Her poems were"
"camp founded in 1948 in Piermont, New Hampshire is named after Whitman. Sites Walt Whitman Walter ""Walt"" Whitman (; May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse. His work was very controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collection ""Leaves of Grass"", which was described as obscene for its overt sexuality. Born in Huntington on Long Island,"
"Adeline Dutton Train Whitney Adeline Dutton Train Whitney (pen name, A. D. T. Whitney; September 15, 1824 – March 20, 1906) was an American poet and prolific writer, who published more than 20 books for girls. Her books expressed a traditional view of women's roles and were popular throughout her life. Her first venture was a ""Book of Rhymes"". Then followed: ""Mother Goose for Grown Folks"", ""Boys at Chequassett"", ""Faith Gartney's Girlhood"", ""Hitherto — a Story of Yesterday"", ""Prince Strong's Outings"", ""The Gayworthys"", ""Leslie Goldthwaite"", ""We Girls"", ""Holy Tides"", ""Real Folks"", ""The Other Girls"", ""Sights and Insights"", ""Odd and Even"","
"Walt Whitman Walter ""Walt"" Whitman (; May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse. His work was very controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collection ""Leaves of Grass"", which was described as obscene for its overt sexuality. Born in Huntington on Long Island, Whitman worked as a journalist, a teacher, a government clerk, and—in addition to"
"Leaves of Grass Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Although the first edition was published in 1855, Whitman spent most of his professional life writing and re-writing ""Leaves of Grass"", revising it multiple times until his death. This resulted in vastly different editions over four decades—the first, a small book of twelve poems and the last, a compilation of over 400. The poems of ""Leaves of Grass"" are loosely connected, with each representing Whitman's celebration of his philosophy of life and humanity. This book is notable for its discussion of delight in"
"The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle (The Weddynge of Syr Gawen and Dame Ragnell) is a 15th-century English poem, one of several versions of the ""loathly lady"" story popular during the Middle Ages. An earlier version of the story appears as ""The Wyfe of Bayths Tale"" (""The Wife of Bath's Tale"") in Geoffrey Chaucer's ""The Canterbury Tales"", and the later ballad ""The Marriage of Sir Gawain"" is essentially a retelling, though its relationship to the medieval poem is uncertain. The author's name is not known, but similarities to ""Le Morte"
"Sequel to Drum-Taps Sequel to Drum-Taps, subtitled When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd and other poems, is a collection of eighteen poems written and published by nineteenth-century American poet Walt Whitman in 1865. Most of the poems in the collection reflect on the American Civil War (1861–1865), and the collection includes two elegiac poems, ""When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"" and ""O Captain! My Captain!"", written in response to the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865. These poems were later included in ""Leaves of Grass"", Whitman's comprehensive collection of his poetry that was expanded throughout his life. At"
"Joseph Philip Robson Joseph Philip Robson (or J. P. Robson) (1808 – 1870) was a Tyneside poet and writer of the 19th century. His most famous works are ""The Pitman’s Happy Times"" and ""The Pawnshop Bleezin’"" a comic description of the reactions of the various customers to the pawnshop going up in flames. He was a contemporary of other Geordie songwriters like George ""Geordie"" Ridley and Joe Wilson. Joseph Philip Robson was born 24 September 1808 in Bailiffgate, Newcastle upon Tyne. His father was preparing for priesthood at Stonyhurst College when he suffered ill health, resulting in his inability to"
"in Carmel Valley, California. On November 16, 1951, ""The Carmel Spectator"" printed a ""Prayer For Thanksgiving"" written by George Faunce Whitcomb. Whitcomb was a member of the ""Washington Lodge of Free Masons"", ""Scottish Rite Masons"" at the Boston Masonic Temple, and ""Boston Masonic Club"". On October 12, 1969, at age 75, Whitcomb died at Orange, California. He is buried at the Los Angeles National Cemetery. George Faunce Whitcomb George Faunce Whitcomb (December 1, 1893 – October 12, 1969), was an American poet, known best for three books on poetry: ""Eagle Quills"" in 1919, ""Jewels Of Romance"" in 1922, and ""Serpent’s"
"and Larkin visited regularly. His poem ""Show Saturday"" is a description of the 1973 Bellingham show in the North Tyne valley. In 1964, in the wake of the publication of ""The Whitsun Weddings"", Larkin was the subject of an episode of the arts programme ""Monitor"", directed by Patrick Garland. The programme, which shows him being interviewed by fellow poet John Betjeman in a series of locations in and around Hull, allowed Larkin to play a significant part in the creation of his own public persona; one he would prefer his readers to imagine. In 1968, Larkin was offered the OBE,"
"Kingsley Amis. The biographer Richard Bradford contends that, over the course of Larkin's life, the relationship with Amis transformed from one of mutual appreciation and encouragement, and that later Larkin ""was subterraneously driven by resentment and near hatred"" of Amis. Eva Larkin was Philip Larkin's mother. Born in 1886, she lived until 1977, dying 29 years after her domineering husband. ""Reference Back"" from ""The Whitsun Weddings"", is a poem written from his mother's viewpoint or his imagination of it. Mother and son wrote to each other twice weekly for about 35 years from 1940, when Larkin went to Oxford University."
"Sarah Helen Whitman Sarah Helen Power Whitman (January 19, 1803 – June 27, 1878) was a poet, essayist, transcendentalist, Spiritualist and a romantic interest of Edgar Allan Poe. Whitman was born in Providence, Rhode Island on January 19, 1803, exactly six years before Poe's birth. She was the daughter of Nicholas Power. In 1828, she married the poet and writer John Winslow Whitman. John had been co-editor of the ""Boston Spectator and Ladies' Album"", which allowed Sarah to publish some of her poetry using the name ""Helen"". John died in 1833; he and Sarah never had children. Sarah Helen Whitman"
"of a shipping register while living in Sunderland. Joseph Philip Robson Joseph Philip Robson (or J. P. Robson) (1808 – 1870) was a Tyneside poet and writer of the 19th century. His most famous works are ""The Pitman’s Happy Times"" and ""The Pawnshop Bleezin’"" a comic description of the reactions of the various customers to the pawnshop going up in flames. He was a contemporary of other Geordie songwriters like George ""Geordie"" Ridley and Joe Wilson. Joseph Philip Robson was born 24 September 1808 in Bailiffgate, Newcastle upon Tyne. His father was preparing for priesthood at Stonyhurst College when he"