Book Description
An anthology of the best of Sir John Betjeman's religious verse with a brilliant introductory and scholarly essay.
Author : Kevin J. Gardner
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 29,52 MB
Release : 2006-10-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0826482724
An anthology of the best of Sir John Betjeman's religious verse with a brilliant introductory and scholarly essay.
Author : John Betjeman
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 49,46 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Poets, English
ISBN : 9780719522208
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 : Greg Morse
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,88 MB
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1782847332
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 : A. N. Wilson
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 16,51 MB
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1466893710
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 : William S. Peterson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 23,3 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198184034
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 : John Betjeman
Publisher : John Murray
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 29,66 MB
Release : 2010-02-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1848543808
For more than half a century Betjeman's writings have awakened readers to the intimacy of English places - from the smell of gaslight in suburban churches, to the hissing of backwash on a shingle beach. Betjeman is England's greatest topologist: whether he's talking about a townhall or a teashop, he gets to the nub of what makes unexpected places unique. This new collection of his writings, arranged geographically, offers an essential gazetteer to the physical landmarks of Betjeman Country. A new addition to the popular series of Betjeman anthologies, following on from Trains and Buttered Toast and Tennis Whites and Teacakes, this is a treasure trove for any Betjeman fan and for anyone with a love for the rare, curious and unique details of English life.
Author : Dennis Brown
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 45,89 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0746308957
Dennis Brown's book assesses Sir John Betjeman's contribution to poetry in the light of the way that his key themes have specific relevance to postmodern and environmental concerns, emphasising its ironic self-reflexivity, its rendering of Englishness and a 'soft' masculinity, and its ecumenical Christian tolerance.
Author : John Betjeman
Publisher :
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 32,71 MB
Release : 1960
Category :
ISBN :
Author : John Betjeman
Publisher : John Murray
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 23,99 MB
Release : 2006-06-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1444725297
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 : Sir John Betjeman
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 1171 pages
File Size : 45,62 MB
Release : 2011-08-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0007416881
A beautiful and practical up-to-date guide to over two thousand of Britain’s best parish churches.