Word: whitsun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WHITSUN WEDDINGS, by Philip Larkin. Crystalline images and insights are distilled from commonplace circumstances by the reticent librarian whose spare, introspective lines have won him a reputation as Britain's finest contemporary poet...
...WHITSUN WEDDINGS, by Philip Larkin. Crystalline images and insights distilled from commonplace settings and circumstances by the reticent British librarian whose spare, introspective lines have won him a reputation as Britain's finest contemporary poet...
...WHITSUN WEDDINGS by Philip Larkin. 46 pages. Random House...
...entire career he has published (aside from two youthful novels) only three books of verse, containing fewer than 100 poems. The Less Deceived, published in 1955, was the blazing eruption of a young volcano, the work of a brilliant man discovering in disorder what he could do. The Whitsun Weddings is a prepared descent into the simmering crater of middle age, the work of a mature man discovering systematically...
...three-day Whitsun weekend, the weather was as warm and bright as the sky in a Visit Britain poster. Streaming out of London by scooter, motor bike and train, the kids swarmed into two seaside resorts, the prearranged settings for their teen-age rites of spring. There, in two days of juvenile violence without parallel in England, they left no stone unhurled to turn holiday into holocaust...