Illustrated Poems of John Betjeman - Softcover

Betjeman, John; Gentleman, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0719555329 ISBN 13: 9780719555329

Verlag: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Betjeman John Sir

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Reseña del editor:

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.

Biografía del autor:

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: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0719555329
• ISBN 13: 9780719555329
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 144