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Author : John Betjeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (256 download)
Download or read book John Betjeman's Collected Poems written by John Betjeman and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Betjeman
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 1444725297
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (447 download)
Download or read book John Betjeman Collected Poems written by John Betjeman and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2006-06-29 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected Poems made publishing history when it first appeared, and has now sold more than two million copies, to an ever-growing readership. This newly expanded edition includes Betjeman's verse autobiography, Summoned by Bells. With a new Introduction by Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion, Collected Poems is the definitive Betjeman companion.
Author : John Betjeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780719522208
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (222 download)
Download or read book Summoned by Bells written by John Betjeman and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of a boy's growth to early manhood, seaside holidays, meddling arts, school bullies and an unexpected moment of religious awakening.
Author : John Betjeman
Publisher : John Murray Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Trains and Buttered Toast written by John Betjeman and published by John Murray Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eccentric, sentimental and homespun, John Betjeman's passions were mostly self-taught. He saw his country being devastated by war and progress and he waged a private war to save it. His only weapons were words--the poetry for which he is best known and, even more influential, the radio talks that first made him a phenomenon. From fervent pleas for provincial preservation to humoresques on eccentric vicars and his own personal demons, Betjeman's talks combined wit, nostalgia and criticism in a way that touched the soul of his listeners from the 1930s to the 1950s. Now, collected in book form for the first time, his broadcasts represent one of the most compelling archives of 20th-century broadcasting.
Author : John Betjeman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472966392
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)
Download or read book Harvest Bells written by John Betjeman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A charming new collection of previously unpublished and uncollected poems by Sir John Betjeman. John Betjeman's unforgettable poems on landscape and suburbia, desire and death, faith and doubt, helped to establish him as the beloved voice of a nation. Yet the ten books of poetry he published individually, later assembled in the Collected Poems, were an incomplete representation of his poetic oeuvre. Many poems published in journals or magazines were excluded from Betjeman's books by him or his editors and a substantial number of finished poems were never printed at all, remaining unknown to readers – until now. In this exquisite new edition of Betjeman's verse editor Kevin Gardner promises new treasures for 'Betj's' admirers the world over. Betjeman wrote many of these poems in the late 1920s and early 1930s, when he was still developing his unique poetic voice. They reveal a young poet experimenting with both Modernism and post-Romanticism, yet influenced by Shelley and Pope among others. Some of these poems are profoundly psychological, personal and deeply affecting to read today. Several have the delicate and eccentric touch of much of his early poetry and shed new light on his growth as a young poet, while many others reflect the sustained maturity of his later verse. Almost all are typically amusing and highly witty in the style typical of Betjeman; some verge on the bawdy and even, in one instance, point towards homosexuality. These charming and surprising new discoveries, found in archives as far apart as Austin, Texas, and Christ Church, Oxford, will delight poetry lovers and introduce a whole new generation to Betjeman's unforgettable work.
Author : John Betjeman
Publisher : John Murray Pubs Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780719565458
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (654 download)
Download or read book The Best Loved Poems of John Betjeman written by John Betjeman and published by John Murray Pubs Limited. This book was released on 2003 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Betjeman was without question the most popular poet of the twentieth century and his poems have been bought and read by millions. He opened eyes to what before him had seemed ordinary but is now unforgettable. There is no other poet remotely like him and this collection of favourites is a perfect reminder of his extraordinary originality and appeal. It is perfect too for those who still have in store the pleasure of discovery.
Author : John Betjeman
Publisher : John Murray Pubs Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780719555329
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (553 download)
Download or read book Illustrated Poems of John Betjeman written by John Betjeman and published by John Murray Pubs Limited. This book was released on 1997 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a selection of Betjeman's poems. They deal with love of many sorts, with people of all kinds observed with comedy and pathos, with the places he made his own and with the church whose foibles he pinpointed so exactly.
Author : John Betjeman
Publisher : John Murray Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780719568329
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (683 download)
Download or read book The Best of Betjeman written by John Betjeman and published by John Murray Publishers. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Betjeman, appointed Poet Laureate in 1972, is celebrated as the best loved poet of the twentieth century. His subtle blend of wit and melancholia, affection and criticism continues to attract an ever-expanding readership. From beneath his sparkling wit and deceptively simple nostalgia, Betjeman emerges as the authority on a broad range of subjects from conservation and church architecture to tradition and Englishness. In this selection of his greatest poetry and prose, cherished classics such as Slough, Pot Pourri from a Surrey Garden and A Subaltern’s Love-song sit beside rare gems like Metro-land, Betjeman’s critically acclaimed film script.
Author : John Betjeman
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393044232
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (442 download)
Download or read book A Nip in the Air written by John Betjeman and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1974 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the originality of John Betjeman as a poet, apart from the unique assonance of his haunting verse forms, comes from the sharp and affectionate gusto with which he introduces his readers to the people and places in a poetic world he has made so much his own. He has few rivals in the personal harmonics he draws from his themes and from the natural world as the setting for human hopes and achievements in all their odd, humorous, and poignant trajectories.
Author : Jonathan Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781912916290
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (162 download)
Download or read book Being Betjeman written by Jonathan Smith and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When did you last hear of a poetry book selling in the millions? Well, since 1958 when John Betjeman's Collected Poems was first published, sales have exceeded 2.5 million and are still going strong. When he died in 1984, still as Poet Laureate, he was by far the UK's favourite poet (as Philip Larkin acknowledged). Thanks to his work as a broadcaster and architectural campaigner he was also a celebrity. However his life was full of insecurities, frustrations and busted relationships, and in terms of his work, his comments that 'he was not taken seriously by the TLS' said it all. Jonathan Smith, author of many successful novels, but also a playwright and educationalist, wrote two radio plays dramatising Betjeman's life which were first broadcast on the BBC in 2017 and which have now been combined into a single narrative, part biography, part fiction but providing an extraordinary - and above all, highly entertaining - journey into the mind and the life of John Betjeman. The book follows the poet from his time at Oxford where he wandered around clutching a teddybear, then having been kicked out, to the well trodden route of Prep School master (he was taken on as a cricket coach, knowing absolutely nothing about the game). Then onto his unfortunate marriage to Penelope Chetwode an English travel writer, and the only daughter of Field Marshal Lord Chetwode, who sadly was more interested in horses than humans. The book then centres on his lengthy affair with Lady Elizabeth Cavendish and his problems with son Paul, who emigrated to the USA and never really forgave Betjeman for his shortcomings as a parent. Beautifully written, we expect this book to be widely noticed in reviews.
Author : John Betjeman
Publisher : John Murray Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book John Betjeman's Collected Poems written by John Betjeman and published by John Murray Publishers. This book was released on 1970 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Hollander
Publisher : Everyman's Library
ISBN 13 : 0375407898
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (754 download)
Download or read book Christmas Poems written by John Hollander and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 1999-10-26 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas is both a holiday and a holy day, and from the start it has been associated with poetry, from the song of the seraphim above the manger to the cherished carols around the punch bowl. This garland of Christmas poems contains not only the ones you would insist on finding here ("A Visit from St. Nicholas," "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming," and "The Twelve Days of Christmas" among them) but such equally enchanting though lesser-known Yuletide treasures as Emily Dickinson's "The Savior must have been a docile Gentleman," Anthony Hecht's "Christmas Is Coming," Rudyard Kipling's "Christmas in India," Langston Hughes's "Shepherd's Song at Christmas," Robert Graves's "The Christmas Robin," and happy surprises like Phyllis McGinley's "Office Party," Dorothy Parker's "The Maid-Servant at the Inn," and Philip Larkin's "New Year Poem."
Author : Alan Bennett
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300215053
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Six Poets written by Alan Bennett and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inimitable Alan Bennett selects and comments upon six favorite poets and the pleasures of their works In this candid, thoroughly engaging book, Alan Bennett creates a unique anthology of works by six well-loved poets. Freely admitting his own youthful bafflement with poetry, Bennett reassures us that the poets and poems in this volume are not only accessible but also highly enjoyable. He then proceeds to prove irresistibly that this is so. Bennett selects more than seventy poems by Thomas Hardy, A. E. Housman, John Betjeman, W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, and Philip Larkin. He peppers his discussion of these writers and their verse with anecdotes, shrewd appraisal, and telling biographical detail: Hardy lyrically recalls his first wife, Emma, in his poetry, although he treated her shabbily in real life. The fabled Auden was a formidable and off-putting figure at the lectern. Larkin, hoping to subvert snooping biographers, ordered personal papers shredded upon his death. Simultaneously profound and entertaining, Bennett's book is a paean to poetry and its creators, made all the more enjoyable for being told in his own particular voice. its creators, made all the more enjoyable for being told in his own particular voice.
Author : John Betjeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Mount Zion written by John Betjeman and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems.
Author : John Betjeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Sweet Songs of Zion written by John Betjeman and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Hymns are the poems of the people.' John Betjeman
Download or read book John Betjeman's Collected Poems written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Betjeman
Publisher : Pan
ISBN 13 : 9780330268493
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (684 download)
Download or read book Church Poems written by John Betjeman and published by Pan. This book was released on 1982 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
