Summoned by Bells - Hardcover

Betjeman, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 071952220X ISBN 13: 9780719522208

Verlag: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2007

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Betjeman is arguably Britain's best-loved and most widely read poet. Summoned By Bells, his verse autobiography, is brim-full of classic Betjeman themes. It tells the story of a boy's growth to early manhood - seaside holidays, meddling aunts, school bullies, an unexpected moment of religious awakening, then Oxford, and sparkling pen-portraits of the literary greats he met there. His unabashedly musical verse is poignant, comic, reverent, defiant, devoted and, always, full of feeling.

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John Betjeman was born in London on 28 August 1906. He was educated at Marlborough and Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1931 his first book of poems, 'Mount Zion', was published by an old Oxford friend, Edward James. His second book was 'Ghastly Good Taste', a commentary on architecture, published in 1934. He was knighted in 1969 and was appointed Poet Laureate in 1972. John Betjeman died on 19 May 1984 at his home in Trebetherick, Cornwall and was buried at the nearby church of St Enodoc.

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• Verlag: John Murray Publishers Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 071952220X
• ISBN 13: 9780719522208
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128
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