Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches: The South

Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches: The South v. 1

Arts & Photography

John Betjeman

Architecture

HarperCollins Distribution Services

From 1930 until shortly before his death he shared with countless readers, listeners and viewers his remarkably catholic passions for books, people and places. Coming Home gathers together a selection from over four decades of his writings about buildings, townscape and landscape, together with appreciations of writers, artists and architects, ranging from Evelyn Waugh, Pugin and T. S. Eliot to R. S. Thomas, Frederick Etchells and Jacob Epstein. Candida Lycett Green's prefaces to each section of this book provide invaluable insight into the context in which these pieces were written by one of the century's most eloquent champions of beautiful, unusual and often unloved places and buildings.

Coming Home

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Vintage

<p>First published in 1938 under the title An Oxford University Chest, this volume presents a treasure-house of amusing sketches of university life, lyrical tributes to Oxford's pastoral pleasures, and characteristically pungent architectural judgments. Now reissued as John Betjeman's Oxford, it remains a delightfully irreverent and nostalgic look at Oxford and its University in the 1930s, reproduced without revision or embellishment. Betjeman devotes more than a third of the book to an architectural tour of the town and university buildings, enlivening the factual information with anecdotes and accounts of relevant historical events. Moholy-Nagy's remarkable photographs, Osbert Lancaster's line drawings, and etchings of the town's magnificent buildings complement Betjeman's text.</p>

John Betjeman's Oxford

History

Americas

Oxford University Press

Church Poems

Pan Books

These new poems, most of them written over the last eight or nine years, are as varied and as captivating as ever―more of that inimitable Betjeman counterpoint that makes a new collection an occasion: places, human encounters, meditations, entertaining verbal fisticuffs with “public” hates, threnodies on lost friends, and the pensive regard of familiar vistas that now draw their warmth and color from nearer horizons. The poet Philip Larkin wrote in The Guardian: "Almost alone among living poets he is in the best sense a committed writer, whose poems spring from what he really feels about real life, and as a result he brings back to poetry a sense of dramatic urgency it had all but lost." Much of the originality of John Betjeman as a poet, apart from the unique assonance of his haunting verse forms, comes from the sharp and affectionate gusto with which he introduces his readers to the people and places in a poetic world he has made so much his own. He has few rivals in the personal harmonics he draws from his themes and from the natural world as the setting for human hopes and achievements in all their odd, humorous, and poignant trajectories.

A Nip In The Air

W.W.Norton

Footnotes to the Film

Alfred Hitchcock

Graham. Greene

Robert Donat

Basil Wright

Alberto Cavalcanti

Maurice Jaubert

Paul Nash

Various, Authors

Humor & Entertainment

Arno Press

Cornwall: a Shell Guide [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 1964] Betjeman, J ...

Cornwall: a Shell Guide

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Faber&Faber

Spine of price clipped dust jacket faded. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

John Betjeman's Collected Poems Enlarged Edition

John Murray

Summoned by Bells

John Murray Publishers, Ltd.

Summoned by Bells has become a classic. Shortly after it was published in 1960 it was heralded as the verse autobiography of the century. It is a uniquely evocative narrative of the agonies and delights of growing up, set against the familiar backgrounds of Highgate, Cornwall, Marlborough and Oxford, and recounted in a way that has endeared Betjeman to generations of readers.

Summoned by bells

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