The Whitsun Weddings

The Whitsun Weddings Sources and ClassicNote Author

  • James Booth. Philip Larkin: The Poet's Plight. Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2005.
  • Richard Bradford. First Boredom, Then Fear: The Life of Philip Larkin. London: Peter Owen, 2009.
  • Stephen Cooper. Philip Larkin: Subversive Writer. Sussex: Sussex Academic Press, 2006.
  • Andrew Motion. Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life. London: Faber and Faber, 1993.
  • Simon Petch. The Art of Philip Larkin. Sydney: Sydney Univ. Press, 1981.
  • Stephen Regan. The Cambridge History of English Poetry. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2010.
  • Mackinnon, Lachlan. “Larkin: Always an Agnostic - but an Anglican Agnostic.” The Independent, Independent Digital News and Media, 24 Feb. 2014, www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/larkin-always-an-agnostic-but-an-anglican-agnostic-9148449.html.

  • Booth, James. “Culture - Philip Larkin: England's Most Miserable Genius?” BBC News, BBC, 1 Dec. 2015, www.bbc.com/culture/story/20151201-philip-larkin-englands-most-miserable-genius.

  • Philip Larkin. "Poetry Foundation." 2/18/19. <www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/philip-larkin>.
  • Joshua Weiner. "Philip Larkin: “The Whitsun Weddings”." Poetry Foundation. 3/2/19. <https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48411/the-whitsun-weddings>.
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