Summoned by Bells - Softcover

Betjeman, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0719533503 ISBN 13: 9780719533501

Verlag: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1989

Inhaltsangabe

(John Betjeman's verse autobiography is a uniquely evocative narrative of the agonies and delights of growing up, set against the familiar backgrounds of Highgate, Cornwall, Marlborough and Oxford. Stephen Spender wrote: 'Summoned by Bells can hardly help being a landmark. John Betjeman... can use the material of his own life and movingly put it before us with such directness and vividness that one seems to be living his childhood and boyhood with him.'
Summoned by Bells has been televised by the BBC with the author reading from the text.
This edition includes for the first time the 'Cricket Master' and additional illustrations)

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Reseña del editor:

From the leafy streets of Edwardian Hampstead to the halls of Oxford, this is the stirring early life of John Betjeman told in his own lively blank verse. Betjeman describes in lush detail hisformative years: the sounds and smells of a middle-class childhood spent in Cornwall; his discovery of literature and poetry; his turning away from the life of trade set before him. Stunning and engaging, Betjeman s words continue to strike and thrill successive generations of poets."

Biografía del autor:

John Betjeman (1906-1984) was a noted British poet and writer.He was knighted in 1969 and was made Poet Laureate in 1972."

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• Verlag: John Murray Publishers Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0719533503
• ISBN 13: 9780719533501
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128