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Author : John Betjeman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book John Betjeman Letters: 1951-1984 written by John Betjeman and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Betjeman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (124 download)
Download or read book Letters, Vol.2: 1951 to 1984 written by John Betjeman and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Betjeman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (328 download)
Download or read book Letters written by John Betjeman and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Greg Morse
Publisher : Apollo Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845195342
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book John Betjeman written by Greg Morse and published by Apollo Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Betjeman (1906-1984) was undoubtedly the most popular Poet Laureate since Tennyson. But, beneath the thoroughly modern window on Britain that he opened during his lifetime lay the influence of his 19th-century Victorian forebears. This book - now available in paperback - explores Betjeman's identity through such Victorianism via the verse of that period, as well as its architecture, religious faith, and - more importantly - religious doubt. It was, nevertheless, a process which took time. In the 1930s, Betjeman's work was tinted with modernism and traditionalism. He found Victorian buildings 'funny' and wrote much in praise of the Bauhaus style, even though his early poetry was peppered with Victorian references. This leaning was incorporated into a greater sense of purpose during World War II, when he transformed himself from precious humorist into propagandist. The resulting sense of cohesion grew when the dangers of post-war urban redevelopment heightened the need to critique the present via the poetics of the past, a mood which continued up to and beyond his gaining the Laureateship in 1972. This duty proved to be a millstone, so the 'official' poems are thus explored by the author more fully than hitherto. The book concludes with a look back to Betjeman's 1960 verse-autobiography, Summoned by Bells, which is seen as the apogee of his achievement and a snapshot of his identity. Included here is the first critical appreciation of the lyrics embodied within the text, which are taken as a map of the young poet's literary growth. The book leads to a final appraisal of his originality, as evidenced by his glances towards postmodernism, feminism, and post-colonialism. The fact is that Betjeman never quite fits in anywhere. He is always a square peg in a round hole or a round peg in a square hole, often for the sheer enjoyment of so being. In a sense, his desire to be as non-conformist as a Quaker meeting house makes him a radical, rather than the reactionary that his interests imply. He was a champion of beauty and the British Isles, and clearly did much to make the British see the worth of their Victorian forebears.
Author : John Betjeman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book 1926 to 1951 written by John Betjeman and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julia Stapleton
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719055119
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (551 download)
Download or read book Political Intellectuals and Public Identities in Britain Since 1850 written by Julia Stapleton and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Political intellectuals and public identities in Britain since 1850 will be of interest to scholars and advanced undergraduates in the fields of political thought and British intellectual and cultural history. It will also be of interest to a wider community of writers and commentators on the politics of English and British national identity."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : John Betjeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book 1951 to 1984 written by John Betjeman and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William S. Peterson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198184034
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book John Betjeman written by William S. Peterson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography describes all John Betjeman's known writings, including his own books, contributions to periodicals and to books by others, lectures, and radio and television programs. Other categories include editorships and interviews, as well as a section devoted to writings about him. Manuscripts and drafts of his works are described in detail.
Author : A. N. Wilson
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466893710
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Betjeman written by A. N. Wilson and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Betjeman was by far the most popular poet of the twentieth century; his collected poems sold more than two million copies. As poet laureate of England, he became a national icon, but behind the public man were doubts and demons. The poet best known for writing hymns of praise to athletic middle-class girls on the tennis courts led a tempestuous emotional life. For much of his fifty-year marriage to Penelope Chetwode, the daughter of a field marshal, Betjeman had a relationship with Elizabeth Cavendish, the daughter of the Duke of Devonshire and lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret. Betjeman, a devout Anglican, was tormented by guilt about the storms this emotional triangle caused. Betjeman, published to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of the poet's birth, is the first to use fully the vast archive of personal material relating to his private life, including literally hundreds of letters written by his wife about their life together and apart. Here too are chronicled his many friendships, ranging from "Bosie" Douglas to the young satirists of Private Eye, from the Mitford sisters to the Crazy Gang. This is a celebration of a much-loved poet, a brave campaigner for architecture at risk, and a highly popular public performer. Betjeman was the classic example of the melancholy clown, whose sadness found its perfect mood music in the hymns of a poignant Anglicanism.
Author : Benjamin Britten
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571279937
Total Pages : 781 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)
Download or read book Letters from a Life Volume 3 (1946-1951) written by Benjamin Britten and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 781 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third volume of the annotated selected letters of composer Benjamin Britten covers the years 1946-51, during which he wrote many of his best-known works, founded and developed the English Opera Group and the Aldeburgh Festival, and toured widely in Europe and the United States as a pianist and conductor.Correspondents include librettists Ronald Duncan (The Rape of Lucretia), Eric Crozier (Albert Herring, Saint Nicolas, The Little Sweep) and E. M. Forster (Billy Budd); conductor Ernest Ansermet and composer Lennox Berkeley; publishers Ralph Hawkes and Erwin Stein of Boosey & Hawkes; and the celebrated tenor Peter Pears, Britten's partner. Among friends in the United States are Christopher Isherwood, Elizabeth Mayer and Aaron Copland, and there is a significant meeting with Igor Stravinsky.This often startling and innovative period is vividly evoked by the comprehensive and scholarly annotations, which offer a wide range of detailed information fascinating for both the Britten specialist and the general reader.Donald Mitchell contributes a challenging introduction exploring the interaction of life and work in Britten's creativity, and an essay examining for the first time, through their correspondence, the complex relationship between the composer and the writer Edward Sackville-West.
Author : Jean Jarvis
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1398424595
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (984 download)
Download or read book A Slice of Life from a Vicar's Wife written by Jean Jarvis and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Jarvis was born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, a market town in the East Midlands and part of the Portland estate within the Dukeries. Her working life has been spent in schools in Worksop and Sheffield. She lived through the time when Britain was recovering from World War II. It was the time of Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley & His Comets. She met and married the curate and became his wife and mother of two children. During this time, she met John Betjeman, a friend of her husband. She acquired his fun name, “The Smasher”. Her love of art and music continued throughout her life, and she became a church organist. Her love of painting is a set of fourteen stations of the cross, which was on show for a short time in Derby Cathedral. This is the story of a long and happening life, told in slices.
Author : Stewart Henderson
Publisher : Lion Books
ISBN 13 : 0745980333
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (459 download)
Download or read book A Poet's Notebook written by Stewart Henderson and published by Lion Books. This book was released on 2018-06-22 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Poet's notebook... with new poems...obviously... includes not just recent favourites, television and radio commissioned poems, some freshly minted verse written especially for this book but also notes and gives the background on how, why, and where the poems were written. Such documentary reportage and wider contemporary reflection gives a fascinating insight into the genesis, development and presentation of the 30 poems chosen. In effect, the book is part journal, part commentary on the wider implications of 'how did we all end up here'? It addresses the light and shade of our days, the celebrations and catastrophes, and acutely observes the collective state and soul of 'this one life'. Complete with the poet's trademark humour encouraging the reader to practice, once again, child-like glee. These are poems you can whistle, sing, chant... and be silent with.
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Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1621968243
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)
Download or read book English Journeys written by and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rory Waterman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317175247
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Belonging and Estrangement in the Poetry of Philip Larkin, R.S. Thomas and Charles Causley written by Rory Waterman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the significance of place, connection and relationship in three poets who are seldom considered in conjunction, Rory Waterman argues that Philip Larkin, R.S. Thomas and Charles Causley epitomize many of the emotional and societal shifts and mores of their age. Waterman looks at the foundations underpinning their poetry; the attempts of all three to forge a sense of belonging with or separateness from their readers; the poets’ varying responses to their geographical and cultural origins; the belonging and estrangement that inheres in relationships, including marriage; the forced estrangements of war; the antagonism between social belonging and a need for isolation; and, finally, the charged issues of faith and mortality in an increasingly secularized country.
Author : N. Brown
Publisher : Writers and Their Work (Paperb
ISBN 13 : 0746308957
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (463 download)
Download or read book John Betjeman written by N. Brown and published by Writers and Their Work (Paperb. This book was released on 1999 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book reassesses the work of England's favourite poet by bringing contemporary literary theory to bear on his unique gifts of lyricism, irony and empathy.
Author : Mike Read
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849548668
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (495 download)
Download or read book Forever England written by Mike Read and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rupert Brooke, strikingly good-looking, effortlessly charming and prodigiously gifted, has become the tragic embodiment of the generation lost between 1914 and 1918. Upon the poet's tragic untimely death, Winston Churchill declared that 'we shall never see his like again', yet Brooke immortalised himself in his own poignant verse: 'If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field that is forever England'. Brooke died serving king and country on the anniversary of Shakespeare's birth, St George's Day 1915, en route to fight at Gallipoli. As the tributes poured in and the war gathered momentum, the press heralded him as a hero - a focal point for the nation's grief. Already an acclaimed poet and dramatist in his youth, his romantic war poetry contrasts starkly with the work of some of his more disillusioned contemporaries. But the private letters of 'the handsomest man in all of England' reveal a far more troubled, and often misunderstood, individual... In this updated edition of Forever England, Mike Read, founder of the Rupert Brooke Society, explores the poet's fascinating life and legacy. From a tangled web of secret affairs, literary circles, mental illness and a previously unknown lovechild emerges the intriguing personality and enduring poetry of Rupert Brooke - the voice of a country torn apart by war.
Author : Niall Carson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1784996491
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)
Download or read book Rebel by vocation written by Niall Carson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive study of one of the most influential literary groups in post-independence Ireland: the writers and editors of the literary magazine The Bell. Seán O'Faoláin and the generation of writers that matured in the shadows of W. B. Yeats and James Joyce dominated the literary landscape in Ireland in the build-up to, and during, the Second World War. This is their story, as told through the history of one journal: The Bell. Working with previously unpublished archival material, this study looks to illuminate the relationships, disputes and loves of the contributors to Ireland's most important 'little magazine' under the guiding influence of its founding editor, Seán O'Faoláin. In doing so, it sheds new light on O'Faoláin's early influences and his attitude towards the Church and the state in Ireland.
