This account of the early years of the poet John Betjeman (1906-1984) encompasses his childhood in Islington and his years at Oxford (where he plunged into the life of the aesthetes there--who included W. H. Auden and Kenneth Clark--but never did take a degree), and follows him into the world. Carrying his famous teddy bear, Archibald, Betjeman ...
John Betjeman's verse autobiography has sold more copies than any other English poem of its length this century. The touching story of a boy's growth to early manhood and the mixed joys and guilt of youth, it is also supremely a poem about places, buildings and surroundings - Highgate and Pooterland, t Cornish seaside and Chelsea, Marlborough ...
John Betjeman first fell in love with Cornwall during his childhood holidays and returned to it yearly until his death. As this collection shows, it has inspired some of his best poems and most evocative prose.
This first volume of the selected letters of the late Poet Laureate John Betjeman covers his life from university days through to his period on the staff of The Architectural Review, as editor of the Shell Guides in the thirties, as Press Attache in Dublin during the War and as an increasingly popular broadcaster and public speaker in the late ...
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