The Best Of Betjeman

Author : John Betjeman
Publisher : John Murray Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780719568329
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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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 :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best of Betjeman written by John Betjeman and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of poetry, prose and work for television covering nearly 50 years.

Author : Sir John Betjeman
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007416881
Total Pages : 1171 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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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 : John Betjeman
Publisher : John Murray Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780719568343
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Best Loved Poems of John Betjeman written by John Betjeman and published by John Murray Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 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 Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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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 :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Betjeman's Collected Poems written by John Betjeman and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Betjeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780719522208
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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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 : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393044232
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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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 : John Betjeman
Publisher : London : Blond
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghastly Good Taste written by John Betjeman and published by London : Blond. This book was released on 1970 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : John Betjeman
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tennis Whites and Teacakes written by John Betjeman and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2007 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Betjeman's England is a place of patriotic poets and seaside coves, provincial cathedrals and eccentric dons. For fifty years, Betjeman celebrated the glories of Englishness and what it meant to be English. Against a tide of rapid change, he unearthed forgotten heroes, bygone haunts and old-fashioned modes of thought. But as this original collection reveals, his appeal goes far beyond simple nostalgia. It lies in his passionate convictions, his humour and his humanity. What does it mean to be English? What is Englishness? For fifty years, at a time when other people were becoming more internationally aware, John Betjeman immersed himself in the glories of English culture - its places, its writings, its heroes. Seaside architecture, national poets, the great cathedrals, our ancient townscapes - all were hard-won achievements, he pleaded, with pleasures and delights that we threw away at our peril. Tennis Whites and Teacakes brings together the best of Betjeman's poetry, private letters, journalism and musings to present a fully rounded picture of what he stood for. From his arguments for new steel buildings to his amusement about the etiquette of village teashops, it reveals Betjeman not just as a sentimentalist but as a passionate observer with a wonderful sense of humour and an acute eye.