The Best of Betjeman

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The Best of Betjeman, a selection of poetry, prose and work for television, covers nearly fifty years. During this time, from Oxford aesthete to Poet Laureate, Sir John Betjeman has become one of the most admired and affectionately regarded writers of our day. The success of this present selection, the first full anthology of his work to be made, lies in the discrimination with which John Guest has chosen the items to be included: these illustrate not only Sir John's development, but the many facets of his personality and the extraordinary range of his knowledge and enthusiasms. All items have been dated so that, in the half century spanned by the book, each piece of writing may be seen, as it were, in the light of its own decade.
In addition to the best of Sir John's poetry, the section devoted to his prose shows him as architectural critic, social historian, conservationist, short story writer, railway enthusiast, country lover, humorist, eccentric and Christian. Also included... Tovább

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The Best of Betjeman, a selection of poetry, prose and work for television, covers nearly fifty years. During this time, from Oxford aesthete to Poet Laureate, Sir John Betjeman has become one of the most admired and affectionately regarded writers of our day. The success of this present selection, the first full anthology of his work to be made, lies in the discrimination with which John Guest has chosen the items to be included: these illustrate not only Sir John's development, but the many facets of his personality and the extraordinary range of his knowledge and enthusiasms. All items have been dated so that, in the half century spanned by the book, each piece of writing may be seen, as it were, in the light of its own decade.
In addition to the best of Sir John's poetry, the section devoted to his prose shows him as architectural critic, social historian, conservationist, short story writer, railway enthusiast, country lover, humorist, eccentric and Christian. Also included is a slightly \bbreviated version of Metro-land, one of several highly successful television films for which Sir John wrote the scripts and in which he personally appeared as narrator. John Guest's appreciative understanding of his subject makes this the perfect introduction to Sir John's work; while for those who are already familiar with it. The Best of Betjeman provides an ideal anthology.
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United Kingdom 95p Australia $2.95 (recommended)
Cover illustration by Andrew Holmes
Poetry/ Literature ISBN 0 U Vissza