An Arundel Tomb; the inspiration for Philip Larkin's poem of the same name is in which English cathedral?
An Arundel Tomb 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
Philip Larkin introductory remarks to many of the poems. A recording of Larkin reading the poems from his final collection, "High Windows", was published in 1975 as "British poets of our time. Philip Larkin; High Windows: poems read by the author" (edited by Peter Orr) on the Argo record label (Argo PLP 1202). As with the two previous recordings, the sequencing of the poems is the same as in the printed volume. Larkin also appears on several audio poetry anthologies: "The Jupiter Anthology of 20th Century English Poetry – Part III" (JUR 00A8), issued in 1963 and featuring "An Arundel Tomb" and