Trains And Buttered Toast

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 : 9781444705003
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Author : Shundana Yusaf
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262026740
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Broadcasting Buildings written by Shundana Yusaf and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the BBC shaped popular perceptions of architecture and placed them at the heart of debates over participatory democracy.

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Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1621968243
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Journeys written by and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191609641
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tennyson Among the Poets written by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-10-08 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to mark the bicentenary of Alfred Tennyson's birth, these essays offer an important revaluation of his achievement and its lasting importance. After several years in which the temper of criticism has been largely political (and often hostile towards Tennyson in particular) a number of influential recent accounts of Victorian poetry have rediscovered the virtues of a closer style of reading and the benefits and pleasures of an approach that, without at all ignoring social and cultural contexts, approaches them through a primary alertness to textual detail and literary history. This volume, including entirely commissioned work by a wide range of critics and scholars from across the profession in both Britain and North America, seeks to bring such forms of attention to bear on the immense variety of Tennyson's career by exploring the complex and multiple connections between Tennyson and other writers - his predecessors, his contemporaries, and his successors. Collectively, the essays describe an intricate network of affiliation and indebtedness, resistance and reconciliation. They provide a unique assessment of Tennyson's origins, work, and imaginative legacy as he enters upon his third century.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Author : John Betjeman
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 1444725297
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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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 : Mark Doyle
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789142547
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kinks written by Mark Doyle and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2020-04-13 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the great British rock bands to emerge from the 1960s, none had a stronger sense of place than the Kinks. Often described as the archetypal English band, they were above all a quintessentially working-class band with a deep attachment to London, particularly the patch of suburban North London where most of the members grew up. In this illuminating study, Mark Doyle examines the relationship between the Kinks and their city, from their early songs of teenage rebellion to their later album-length works of social criticism, providing a unique perspective on the way in which the band responded to the shifting nature of working-class life. Along the way, he finds fascinating and sometimes surprising connections with figures as diverse as Edmund Burke, John Clare, Charles Dickens, and the Covent Garden Community Association. More than just a book about the Kinks, this is a book about a city, a nation, and a social class undergoing a series of profound, sometimes troubling changes—and about a group of young men who found a way to describe, lament, and occasionally even celebrate those changes through song.

Author : Matthew Bevis
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191653020
Total Pages : 908 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry written by Matthew Bevis and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I am inclined to think that we want new forms . . . as well as thoughts', confessed Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning in 1845. The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry provides a closely-read appreciation of the vibrancy and variety of Victorian poetic forms, and attends to poems as both shaped and shaping forces. The volume is divided into four main sections. The first section on 'Form' looks at a few central innovations and engagements—'Rhythm', 'Beat', 'Address', 'Rhyme', 'Diction', 'Syntax', and 'Story'. The second section, 'Literary Landscapes', examines the traditions and writers (from classical times to the present day) that influence and take their bearings from Victorian poets. The third section provides 'Readings' of twenty-three poets by concentrating on particular poems or collections of poems, offering focused, nuanced engagements with the pleasures and challenges offered by particular styles of thinking and writing. The final section, 'The Place of Poetry', conceives and explores 'place' in a range of ways in order to situate Victorian poetry within broader contexts and discussions: the places in which poems were encountered; the poetic representation and embodiment of various sites and spaces; the location of the 'Victorian' alongside other territories and nationalities; and debates about the place - and displacement - of poetry in Victorian society. This Handbook is designed to be not only an essential resource for those interested in Victorian poetry and poetics, but also a landmark publication—provocative, seminal volume that will offer a lasting contribution to future studies in the area.

Author : Kirsty Fergusson
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN 13 : 1841628646
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cornwall (Slow Travel) written by Kirsty Fergusson and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2015-03-13 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of Cornwall's wildest or most curious corners as well as the exciting new range of places to eat, sleep or drink are often overlooked in the headlong race to get to the beach or the well-known tourist spots. Taking the Slow approach, using local knowledge and the author's endless curiosity, this guide offers both visitors and seasoned residents alike the chance to discover what lies behind the immediate and obvious attractions of Britain's favourite holiday destination.