John Betjeman was born in 1906 and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford. A prolific journalist, poet and broadcaster, he became a national celebrity, famous for his passionate defence of Britain”s Victorian heritage. He was knighted in 1969 and became Poet Laureate in 1972. He died in 1984.
6 E-böcker av John Betjeman
John Betjeman: Ghastly Good Taste
'My own interest started in seeking out what was old. When the guide told me that this was the bed in which Queen Elizabeth slept, I believed him. When owners of country cottages in Suffolk told …
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John Betjeman: First and Last Loves
'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 mono …
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John Betjeman: John Betjeman Collected Poems
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 aut …
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John Betjeman & John Betjeman: Betjeman’s England
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 bea …
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Betjeman John Betjeman: Harvest Bells
A charming new collection of previously unpublished and uncollected poems by Sir John Betjeman.John Betjeman’s unforgettable poems on landscape and suburbia, desire and death, faith and doubt, helped …
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John Betjeman: Lovely Bits of Old England
John Betjeman began writing for the Telegraph in 1951 and continued to do so for a quarter of a century. During that time Britain underwent profound social and cultural changes. In architecture, gran …
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