Trains and Buttered Toast

Author: John Betjeman
Publisher: John Murray Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 376

Book Description
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.

Trains and Buttered Toast - Ssb

Author: John Betjeman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781444705003
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Broadcasting Buildings

Author: Shundana Yusaf
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262026740
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 350

Book Description
How the BBC shaped popular perceptions of architecture and placed them at the heart of debates over participatory democracy.

English Journeys

Author:
Publisher: Cambria Press
ISBN: 1621968243
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 380

Book Description

Trains

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 756

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Tennyson Among the Poets

Author: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191609641
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 456

Book Description
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.

John Betjeman

Author: Greg Morse
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1782847332
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273

Book Description
John Betjeman was undoubtedly the most popular Poet Laureate since Tennyson. This book explores his identity through such Victorianism via the verse of that period, but also its architecture, religious faith and - more importantly - religious doubt.

John Betjeman Collected Poems

Author: John Betjeman
Publisher: John Murray
ISBN: 1444725297
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 486

Book Description
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.

The Bookman's Tale

Author: Ronald Blythe
Publisher: Canterbury Press
ISBN: 1853119806
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
Ronald Blythe has spent his life among the artists and writers of his native Suffolk. His books, especially the bestselling "Akenfield", have given East Anglia a distinctive literary voice. Here we accompany Ronald through the lanes of Constable country, we observe him in his study following his early morning writing routine, we meet John Clare, Traherne and countless other writers who continue to influence him, we join him in the ancient tradition of Anglican worship season by season, and luxuriate in the simple beauty of his ancient farmhouse and its garden, made by the artist John Nash. Literature, poetry, spirituality and memory all merge to create exquisite stories for our times.

The Best of Betjeman

Author: John Betjeman
Publisher: John Murray Publishers
ISBN: 9780719568329
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 236

Book Description
John Betjeman, appointed Poet Laureate in 1972, is celebrated as the best loved poet of the twentieth century. His subtle blend of wit and melancholia, affection and criticism continues to attract an ever-expanding readership. From beneath his sparkling wit and deceptively simple nostalgia, Betjeman emerges as the authority on a broad range of subjects from conservation and church architecture to tradition and Englishness. In this selection of his greatest poetry and prose, cherished classics such as Slough, Pot Pourri from a Surrey Garden and A Subaltern’s Love-song sit beside rare gems like Metro-land, Betjeman’s critically acclaimed film script.