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Author : Robert Harbison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780233988931
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (889 download)
Download or read book The Shell Guide to English Parish Churches written by Robert Harbison and published by . This book was released on 1994-08-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Harbison
Publisher : Andrea Deutsch
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Shell Guide to English Parish Churches written by Robert Harbison and published by Andrea Deutsch. This book was released on 1992 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Betjeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sir John Betjeman's Guide to English Parish Churches written by John Betjeman and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1958, the Collins Guide to English Parish Churches, edited by John Betjeman, won its way into the hearts of all those who love the churches of England and Wales.
Author : Clive Fewins
Publisher : Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781853116223
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (162 download)
Download or read book The Church Explorer's Handbook written by Clive Fewins and published by Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd. This book was released on 2005 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fully illustrated pocket guide to UK churches and their contents.
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
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (256 download)
Download or read book Collins Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches written by John Betjeman and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Clark
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445654512
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book A1 Landmarks written by James Clark and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Clark takes an innovative look at Britain's longest numbered road.
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 : Peter Ashley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119971055
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (199 download)
Download or read book Cross Country written by Peter Ashley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-03-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Cross Country photographer and author Peter Ashley unleashes his passion for Blighty. He takes us on an enlightening jaunt that encompasses many of England’s most loved regions. His love of buildings and landscape extends far beyond architecture in picturesque surroundings. By combining personal reminiscence and an ear for intriguing anecdote, he shows us with wit, and sometimes irreverent comment, just how richly varied the fabric of England is: abandoned Cornish tin mines above tide-washed caves; Norfolk boat sheds leaning on salt marches; Romney Marsh shepherd’s houses disappearing behind roadside willows; and hedges looked over in Wiltshire. Local details are found in both Essex estuaries and Cumbrian sand dunes; and long abandoned railway lines are once again pressed into service to take us around his beloved High Leicestershire. Ashley never misses the curious and neglected – be it a sheep wash in the Cotswolds or a disused petrol pump in Herefordshire. He travels deep into t eh countryside he cares about. His wry observations allow us to rediscover and delight in what many of us might previously have deemed familiar territory.
Author : George Watson
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 746 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 4, 1900-1950 written by George Watson and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1972-12-07 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 4 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.
Author : John Betjeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (294 download)
Download or read book Collins Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches written by John Betjeman and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ewa Panecka
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527541819
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Religious Experience in Modern Poetry written by Ewa Panecka and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study on religious experience in modern poetry features innovatory and accessible close readings of some of the most beloved authors of English verse. In today’s seemingly secular age, religion still remains a highly contested subject. The selection of texts analysed here is representative of a wide spectrum of attitudes, including a sharply critical refusal to acknowledge Christianity as the basis of civilization. Some poets see national religion as a framework for cultural identity, while others worship nature as the omnipotent Force of Life, trying to create their own gods. Rather than reducing poetry to a background for philosophical analysis or theological deliberation, this book presents diverse modes of the poetic endeavor to capture and convey the divine. The chapters provide a range of perspectives on individual experience rendered into poetry as a subtle relationship between faith, perception and language. The text will be of interest to anyone looking for new ways of reading poetry as a spiritual guest.
Author : Sir John Betjeman
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007416881
Total Pages : 1171 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Betjeman’s Best British Churches written by Sir John Betjeman and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 1171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful and practical up-to-date guide to over two thousand of Britain’s best parish churches.
Author : David Meara
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445687119
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book A Passion For Places written by David Meara and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former Archdeacon of London David Meara explores some of John Betjeman's favourite churches, cathedrals and secular buildings.
Author : Michael Billett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book English Thatched Churches written by Michael Billett and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable guide is devoted entirely to the picturesque thatched churches that survive in the English countryside. Those who visit them, as well as readers who delight in the beauty of thatch, will find the book an invaluable aid to enhancing enjoyment of the many churches that remain hidden away in remote locations. In addition to the artistry of the beautiful thatched roofs, the interiors reveal a host of treasures, such as 14th century wall paintings, the intricate stone carvings of the Norman masons, ornate wood carvings, rood screens, and the skill of the stained glass window designers. The churches also give an insight into the history of England, as most consist of an architectural mix of various centuries, ranging from the Saxon period to the 20th century. An invaluable and unique reference guide to England's thatched churches, a concise glossary of architectural terms and short summaries of the saints to whom the thatched churches are dedicated are also included.
Author : William Feaver
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0525657533
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (256 download)
Download or read book The Lives of Lucian Freud: The Restless Years written by William Feaver and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of the epic life of one of the most important, enigmatic and private artists of the 20th century. Drawn from almost 40 years of conversations with the artist, letters and papers, it is a major work written by a well-known British art critic. Lucian Freud (1922-2011) is one of the most influential figurative painters of the 20th century. His paintings are in every major museum and many private collections here and abroad. William Feaver's daily calls from 1973 until Freud died in 2011, as well as interviews with family and friends were crucial sources for this book. Freud had ferocious energy, worked day and night but his circle was broad including not just other well-known artists but writers, bluebloods, royals in England and Europe, drag queens, fashion models gamblers, bookies and gangsters like the Kray twins. Fierce, rebellious, charismatic, extremely guarded about his life, he was witty, mischievous and a womanizer. This brilliantly researched book begins with the Freuds' life in Berlin, the rise of Hitler and the family's escape to London in 1933 when Lucian was 10. Sigmund Freud was his grandfather and Ernst, his father was an architect. In London in his twenties, his first solo show was in 1944 at the Lefevre Gallery. Around this time, Stephen Spender introduced him to Virginia Woolf; at night he was taking Pauline Tennant to the Gargoyle Club, owned by her father and frequented by Dylan Thomas; he was also meeting Sonia Orwell, Cecil Beaton, Auden, Patrick Leigh-Fermor and the Aly Khan, and his muse was a married femme fatale, 13 years older, Lorna Wishart. But it was Francis Bacon who would become his most important influence and the painters Frank Auerbach and David Hockney, close friends. This is an extremely intimate, lively and rich portrait of the artist, full of gossip and stories recounted by Freud to Feaver about people, encounters, and work. Freud's art was his life—"my work is purely autobiographical"—and he usually painted only family, friends, lovers, children, though there were exceptions like the famous small portrait of the Queen. With his later portraits, the subjects were often nude, names were never given and sittings could take up to 16 months, each session lasting five hours but subjects were rarely bored as Freud was a great raconteur and mimic. This book is a major achievement, a tour de force that reveals the details of the life and innermost thoughts of the greatest portrait painter of our time. Volume I has 41 black and white integrated images, and 2 eight-page color inserts.
Author : Allan Hepburn
Publisher : Oxford Mid-Century Studies
ISBN 13 : 0198828578
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book A Grain of Faith written by Allan Hepburn and published by Oxford Mid-Century Studies. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During and after the Second World War, there was a concerted thinking about religion in Britain. Not only were leading international thinkers of the day theologians--Ronald Niebuhr, Paul Tillich, Jacques Maritain--but leading writers contributed to discussions about religion. Graham Greene, Muriel Spark, and Barbara Pym incorporated miracles, evil, and church-going into their novels, while Louis MacNeice, T. S. Eliot, and C. S. Lewis gave radio broadcasts about the role of Christianity in contemporary society. Certainly the war revived interest in aspects of Christian life. Salvation and redemption were on many people's minds. The Ministry of Information used images of bombed churches to stoke patriotic fervour, and King George VI led a series of Days of National Prayer that coincided with crucial events in the Allied campaign. After the war and throughout the 1950s, approximately 1.4 million Britons converted to Roman Catholicism as a way of expressing their spiritual ambitions and solidarity with humanity on a world-wide scale. Religion provided one way for writers to answer the question, 'what is man?' It also afforded ways to think about social obligation and ethical engagement. Moreover, the mid-century turn to religion offered ways to articulate statehood, not from the perspective of nationhood and politics, but from the perspective of moral action and social improvement. Instead of being a retreat into seclusion and solitude, the mid-century turn to religion is a call to responsibility.
