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Author : John Betjeman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Poets, English
ISBN : 071952220X
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,John Guest
Publisher : John Murray Publishers
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 0719568323
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 : Kevin J. Gardner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441153548
Sir John Betjeman was one of the twentieth century's great makers of the Christian imagination. He was maybe the most significant literary figure of our time to declare his Christian faith and his terror of dying. Betjeman used his formidable gifts for poetry to show us how to think about the Anglican faith and about Englishness and Christianity in general. Here is an anthology of about 75 poems on religious themes, with clarifying footnotes and a critical introduction that offers an overview of his life and poetry as well as a commentary on some of his more difficult poems. Here is a new perspective on Betjeman's life and beliefs. This new edition of Betjeman's religious poetry will demonstrate that Betjeman is the great poet of the Church in the twentieth century; it will also introduce delightful, accessible and important poetry to new readers. It will suggest to both British and American readers ways of thinking about spiritual cultural and ecclesiastical matters as well as about the intersection of literature and art.
Author : John Betjeman
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780571286928
'Oh prams on concrete balconies, what will your children see? Oh white and antiseptic life in school and home and clinic, oh soul-destroying job with handy pension, oh loveless life of safe monotony, why were you created?' First and Last Loves is a collection of Betjeman's essays on architecture, first published to coincide with an exhibition at the Soane Museum, and a worthwhile volume in its own right. Introduced with a lively tirade against mediocrity entitled 'Love is Dead', Betjeman discusses a range of topics including conservation battles, modern architecture and his passion for railways.
Author : William S. Peterson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198184034
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 : Greg Morse
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781782847335
John Betjeman was undoubtedly the most popular Poet Laureate since Tennyson. This book explores his identity through such Victorianism via the verse of that period, but also its architecture, religious faith and - more importantly - religious doubt.
Author : N. Brown,Dennis Brown
Publisher : Writers and Their Work (Paperb
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780746308950
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 : John Betjeman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:655859100
Author : John Betjeman
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0393044238
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 : John Betjeman
Publisher : John Murray
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006-06-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781444725292
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 : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781472966391
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 : Sir John Betjeman,Richard Surman
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 1171 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780007416882
A beautiful and practical up-to-date guide to over two thousand of Britain’s best parish churches.
Author : John Betjeman
Publisher : John Murray Publishers
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015064914669
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 : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1417529554
Author : John Betjeman
Publisher : London : Blond
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015012907351
Written when Betjeman was 26 and criticised by the author himself in this edition for showing "sententiousness, arrogance and sweeping generalisation." Includes a potted autobiography of his early years showing how he came to write such a book.
