Poetry Books by John Betjeman
Publisher: John Murray Publishers
Published Date: 1984
Categories: Cornwall (England : County)
John Betjeman first fell in love with Cornwall during his childhood holidays and returned to it yearly until his death. As this collection shows, it has inspired some of his best poems and most evocative prose.
Publisher: Methuen Pub Limited
Published Date: 2006
Categories: Architecture
The best-loved of English poets, John Betjeman was also a great champion of British heritage. This volume brings together some of his correspondences written on his travels, and describes what Betjeman found of value in the landscape and architecture of this country as it cuts a nostalgic arc through Betjeman's Britain.
Publisher: John Murray Pubs Limited
Published Date: 1997
Categories: English poetry
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.
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Published Date: 2007
Categories: Poets, English
Tells the story of a boy's growth to early manhood, seaside holidays, meddling arts, school bullies and an unexpected moment of religious awakening.
Publisher: Methuen Pub Limited
Published Date: 2006
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
John Betjeman (1906-1984) was not simply one of the best-loved contemporary English poets but was also one of the best-loved Englishmen of the 20th century. This work covers his life from the age of 46 when his popularity as a poet and broadcaster and as a campaigner against bureaucratic vandalism directed at many fine buildings was reaching its height.
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Published Date: 2007
Categories: Hymns
'Hymns are the poems of the people.' John Betjeman.
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published Date: 2010-02-04
Categories: Travel
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.
Publisher: Isis Large Print Books
Published Date: 1986
Categories: Poetry
This collection of poetry includes poems written between 1932 and 1948, comprising selections from Mount Zion, Continual Dew, Old Lights for New Chancels, New Bats for Old Belfries, and selected poems.
Publisher: John Murray Pubs Limited
Published Date: 1998-03-01
Categories: Poetry
John Betjeman's delightful evocation in verse and prose, of the church and church life, is gracefully rendered in 80 watercolor paintings. No one has captured as completely that intimate world, with its clergy, congregation, architecture, and ritual, than the late poet laureate.
Publisher: Random House
Published Date: 1998
Categories: Literature
From 1930 until shortly before his death he shared with countless readers, listeners and viewers his remarkably catholic passions for books, people and places. Coming Home gathers together a selection from over four decades of his writings about buildings, townscape and landscape, together with appreciations of writers, artists and architects, ranging from Evelyn Waugh, Pugin and T. S. Eliot to R. S. Thomas, Frederick Etchells and Jacob Epstein. Candida Lycett Green's prefaces to each section of this book provide invaluable insight into the context in which these pieces were written by one of the century's most eloquent champions of beautiful, unusual and often unloved places and buildings.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published Date: 2014-08-19
Categories: Poetry
Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough To get it ready for the plough. The cabbages are coming now; The earth exhales. --from "Slough" When the beloved English poet John Betjeman's Collected Poems first appeared in 1958, it made publishing history, and has now sold more than two million copies to a steadily expanding readership. Betjeman is almost unique among poets in that his work appeals equally strongly to those who love poetry and to those who rarely read it. This volume, the first American edition of the Collected Poems, incorporates all the poems that Betjeman published after the original Collected Poems and includes a new foreword by Britain's poet laureate, Andrew Motion.
Publisher: A&C Black
Published Date: 2008-11-18
Categories: Literary Criticism
The book represent a genuine and important discovery in the canon of Betjeman's poems, often considered closed with the publication of the Complete Poems.
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published Date: 2006-06-29
Categories: Poetry
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.
Publisher: John Murray Publishers
Published Date: 2006
Categories: English poetry
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.
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published Date: 2012-02-02
Categories: Architecture
'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.
Publisher: A&C Black
Published Date: 2005-01-01
Categories: Religion
Sir John Betjeman was one of the twentieth century's great makers of the Christian imagination. He used his formidable gifts for poetry to show us how to think about the Anglican faith and about Englishness, and Christianity in general. This is an antholo
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Published Date: 2006
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In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most important poets in our literature.Sir John Betjeman (1906-1984) was born in Highgate, the son of a manufacturer of Dutch descent. After university he joined the staff of the Architectural Review, thereafter working as a journalist and, during the Second World War, for various government departments. His first book of poems was Mount Zion (1931), followed by numerous collections, notably A Few Late Chrysanthemeumns (1954). His poetry enjoyed immense popularity, as did his personality, and his knighthood in 1969 and appointment as Poet Laureate in 1972 were almost universally welcomed.
