John Betjeman (1906–1984)

Autore di Collected Poems

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A leading modern champion of the values of an older England, John Betjeman was born in Highgate, London, to a well-off merchant family. The loneliness and suffering of his upbringing, first under nursemaids and then at a series of schools, often surface in his poetry. He went to Magdalene College, mostra altro Oxford, where he belonged to the same smart social set as Evelyn Waugh. Deliberately free from the difficulties of much modern verse, Betjeman's poetry harks back to a more accessible British tradition that includes Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Thomas Hardy. With quiet wit he resisted the debasements of modern mass culture in favor of an older England simpler, more rural, and more religious than the current one. Both W. H. Auden and Philip Larkin especially admired his work, and Auden even edited a selection of it. His harsher critics have found him unintellectual and sentimental. His poetry has achieved a huge circulation in Great Britain, with the Collected Poems (1958) reputedly selling more than 100,000 copies. Considered a national institution, he succeeded Cecil Day Lewis as poet laureate in 1972. Betjeman worked in a variety of media and achieved wide public attention as host for a television series on the history of British architecture, one of his prime interests. He wrote a great deal on architecture, especially for the Architectural Review. Betjeman died in 1984. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno

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Collected Poems (1958) 786 copie

The Best of Betjeman (1978) 259 copie

Summoned By Bells (1960) 214 copie

Trains and Buttered Toast: Selected Radio Talks (2006) 193 copie

Ghastly good taste; or, A depressing story of the rise and fall of English architecture (1933) 95 copie

A Pictorial History of English Architecture (1970) 90 copie

Tennis Whites and Teacakes (2007) 83 copie

Betjeman's Britain (1999) 83 copie

English Cities & Small Towns (1943) 82 copie

John Betjeman Selected Poems (2004) 76 copie

First and Last Loves (1952) 71 copie

John Betjeman: Poems Selected by Hugo Williams (2006) 67 copie

English Love Poems (1974) — A cura di — 59 copie

Guide to Selected English Parish Churches (1958) 56 copie

An Oxford University Chest (1938) 56 copie

London's Historic Railway Stations (1972) 56 copie

Sweet Songs of Zion (2007) 55 copie

John Betjeman Letters: Volume One: 1926 to 1951 (1994) 53 copie

Betjeman's England (2009) 49 copie

Coming Home: Selected Prose of Sir John Betjeman (1997) 49 copie

The City of London Churches (1965) 46 copie

Church Poems (1981) 44 copie

Victorian and Edwardian London from Old Photographs (1955) 41 copie

The Illustrated Summoned by Bells (1984) 41 copie

John Betjeman on Trains (2006) 39 copie

John Betjeman Letters: Volume Two: 1952 to 1984 (1995) 36 copie

A nip in the air (1974) 36 copie

Westminster Abbey (1972) 35 copie

In Praise of Churches (1996) 34 copie

John Piper (1944) 31 copie

Continual Dew: A Little Book of Bourgeois Verse (1937) 30 copie

Betjeman's Best British Churches (2011) 29 copie

A ring of bells: Poems of John Betjeman (1962) 29 copie

High and Low (1966) 28 copie

Lovely Bits of Old England: John Betjeman at the Telegraph (2012) 28 copie

Best Loved Poems of John Betjeman (2003) 25 copie

Shell Guide : Cornwall (1935) 23 copie

John Betjeman (1958) 20 copie

Betjeman's Cornwall (1988) 20 copie

A Few Late Chrysanthemums (1954) 19 copie

Uncollected Poems (1745) 19 copie

The Illustrated Poems of John Betjeman (1995) 19 copie

John Betjeman's Oxford (1990) 18 copie

Archie and the Strict Baptists (1977) 17 copie

Altar and pew: Church of England verses (Pocket poets) (1959) — A cura di — 16 copie

English Churches (1964) 15 copie

Classic Hymns & Carols (2012) — Prefazione — 15 copie

Poems in the porch (1955) 14 copie

Victorian and Edwardian Cornwall from Old Photographs (1976) — Autore — 11 copie

Murray's Berkshire architectural guide (1949) 11 copie

New bats in old belfries : poems (1945) 10 copie

Collins Pocket guide to English parish churches The South (1968) 10 copie

Vintage London (1942) 8 copie

Victorian and Edwardian Oxford from old photographs (1971) 8 copie

Harvest Bells: New and Uncollected Poems by John Betjeman (2019) 7 copie

Collins pocket guide to English parish churches : the North (1967) 7 copie

English, Scottish and Welsh Landscape, 1700-c. 1860. [Poems.] Chosen by J. Betjeman and G. Taylor. With original… (1978) 7 copie

Flower of Cities - A Book of London: Studies and Sketches by Twenty-Two Authors (1949) 7 copie

Betjeman on Faith : An anthology of his religious prose (2011) 6 copie

Mount Zion : or, In touch with the infinite 6 copie

Victorian and Edwardian Brighton from Old Photographs (1972) 5 copie

Old lights for new chancels : verses topographical and amatory (1940) 5 copie

John Betjeman, A First Class Collection (2006) 5 copie

Slick But Not Streamlined (1947) 4 copie

Westminster Cathedral (guide to the architecture and interior the history and pastoral functions of the metropolitan… (1990) 4 copie

Antiquarian prejudice 4 copie

Summoned by Bells: A Life in Verse (BBC Audio) (2008) 4 copie

Betjeman's Banana Blush (1995) 4 copie

Murray's Buckinghamshire Architectural Guide (1948) 4 copie

Selected Poems. Ed. John Sparrow. (1948) 3 copie

John Betjeman and the Railways 3 copie

Betjeman Reads Betjeman (1993) 3 copie

Metro-Land 3 copie

An American's Guide to English Parish Churches, Including the Isle of Man (1958) 3 copie

John Betjeman Collection: "Summoned by Bells", "Poetry from the BBC Archives", "Recollections from the BBC Archives"… (2000) 3 copie

Parody Party (1970) — Autore — 3 copie

Betjeman's Britain: Poems from BBC Archi (2008) 2 copie

Betjeman's Britain [Import anglais] 2 copie

English Scottish and Welsh Landscape 1700 - C. 1860 (1945) 2 copie

Selected poems : chosen, with a pref (1948) 2 copie

Metro-land 2 copie

Collins Guide to English Parish Churches - Including the Isle of Man (1958) 2 copie

Still Sidmouth — The 'Lost' Poem (2000) 2 copie

The John Betjeman Hymnbook (2011) 2 copie

Diary Of A Church Mouse 1 copia

Antiquarian Predjudice 1 copia

Pocket Poets, The 1 copia

Six Betjeman Songs 1 copia

Murray's Buckinghamshire Guide 1 copia

Poems 1 copia

The Illustrated Summoned by Bells. With Paintings and Drawings by Hugh Casson 1 copia

West Country Churches: Four Essays 1 copia

Diary of Percy Progress 5 - Advertising De Luxe [short fiction] 1 copia

An American's guide to English parish churches 1 copia

Sir John Betjeman's Britain 1 copia

Some Irish Churchyard Sculpture 1 copia

Shell Guide : Shropshire (1951) 1 copia

John Betjeman letters: volume one,1926 to 1951, and, volume two, 1951 to 1984 (1994) — Autore — 1 copia

Altar and Pew: Church of England Verses 1 copia

John Betjeman's Collected Poems 1 copia

Late Flowering Lust 1 copia

Diary of Percy Progress 4 - The Business Man's Yule [short fiction] 1 copia

The Golden Treasury of John Betjaman 1 copia

In Westminster Abbey 1 copia

Devonshire Street W1 (in The Norton Book of London) 1 copia

Parliament Hill Fields (in The Norton Book of London) 1 copia

Monody on the Death of Aldersgate Street Station (in The Norton Book of London) 1 copia

My Favourite Betjeman : a selection of his poems by a selection of admirers (1985) 1 copia

The Poems of John Betjeman 1 copia

Beautiful Poetry Classics Collection (2000) 1 copia

Murray's Architectural Guide (1949) 1 copia

St. Peter-in-the-East, Oxford : a short guide with foreword 1 copia

Poetry for pleasure : the Hallmark book of poetry 1 copia

Diary of Percy Progress III - Business [short fiction] 1 copia

A Whale of a Story Review of Moby Dick by Herman Melville Daily Herald, 9 January 1947, p. 2. (1947) 1 copia

Collins Pocket Guide To English Parish Churches, The North & The South (1968) 1 copia

John Betjeman - A Bird's Eye View [DVD] 1 copia

The Great Days of the Country Railway 1 copia

Varsity Rag 1 copia

Metro-Land [DVD] [1973] (1973) 1 copia

Highgate Cemetery 1 copia

John Betjeman - A Bird's Eye View [DVD] 1 copia

Diary of Percy Progress I - The Cag bag and the Mags [short fiction] 1 copia

Diary of Percy Progress II - My Talk With an Earl [short fiction] 1 copia

Branchline Railway [VHS] 1 copia

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The Portable Conservative Reader (1982) — Collaboratore — 211 copie

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All Day Long: An Anthology of Poetry for Children (1954) — Collaboratore — 9 copie

Little Innocents: Childhood Reminiscences (1932) — Collaboratore — 9 copie

Men and Women: The Poetry of Love (1970) — Collaboratore — 8 copie

Shell Guide : Devon (1937) — A cura di — 7 copie

The West Country Book (1981) — Collaboratore — 6 copie

Shell Guide : Mid Wales: Brecon, Radnor and Montgomery (1960) — A cura di — 6 copie

From Tower to Tower Block: the Buildings of Hackney (1979) — Prefazione — 6 copie

Shell Guide : Oxfordshire — A cura di — 5 copie

Shell Guide : Worcestershire (1964) — A cura di — 5 copie

Shell Guide : Wiltshire (1956) — A cura di — 4 copie

Shell Guide : The West Coast Of Scotland (1938) — A cura di — 4 copie

Shell Guide : Herefordshire — A cura di — 4 copie

The West in English History (1949) — Collaboratore — 3 copie

Shell Guide : Rutland (1963) — A cura di — 3 copie

Metro-Land 3 copie

One Hundred Years a Diocese (1977) — Collaboratore — 2 copie

Anton — Prefazione — 1 copia

Typography : a quarterly, no. 2, Spring 1937 (1937) — Collaboratore — 1 copia

Avallaunius, Winter 1997, Seventeen : the journal of the Arthur Machen Society (1997) — Collaboratore — 1 copia

The London Mercury Vol Xxvii No 158 December 1932 — Collaboratore — 1 copia

Festival of the City of London : 1962 programme book — Collaboratore — 1 copia

Little reviews anthology — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 1 copia

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Informazioni generali

Data di nascita: 1906-08-28
Data di morte: 1984-05-19
Sesso: male
Nazionalità: England (birth)
UK
Luogo di nascita: Highgate, London, England, UK
Luogo di morte: Trebetherick, Cornwall, England
Luogo di residenza: London, England, UK
Trebetherick, Cornwall, England, UK
Dublin, Ireland
Uffington, England, UK
Farnborough, Hampshire, England, UK
Wantage, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Istruzione: University of Oxford (Magdalen College)
Byron House
Highgate School
Dragon School
Marlborough College
Attività lavorative: poet
writer
broadcaster
Relazioni: Chetwode, Penelope (wife)
Green, Candida Lycett (daughter)
Green, Imogen Lycett (granddaughter)
Eliot, T. S. (teacher)
Lewis, C. S. (tutor)
Wilson, Mary (friend)
Organizzazioni: American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary ∙ Literature ∙ 1973)
Friends of Friendless Churches
Premi e riconoscimenti: Royal Society of Literature Companion of Literature
Order of the British Empire (Commander, 1960)
Knight Bachelor (1969)
Poet Laureate of England (1972)
Breve biografia: Sir John Betjeman, (1906 – 1984) was a twentieth-century English poet, writer and broadcaster. Born to a middle-class family in Edwardian Hampstead, he attended Oxford University, and his early ability in writing poetry and interest in architecture supported him throughout his life. Starting his career as a journalist, he ended it as British Poet Laureate and a much-loved figure on British television. His works include poetry, prose and television appearances.

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Continual Dew: A Little Book of Bourgeois Verse di John Betjeman

This is a very pretty little book, a 1977 facsimile 'slim volume of poetry' reprinted from the earlier impression of the 1937 edition. It contains many well-known Betjeman poems: 'Slough' ('Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough! / It isn't fit for humans now ... ) and 'The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel'. The volume was designed with the late Sir John's famous eccentricities in mind: cartoonist Osbert Lancaster contributed to the illustrations, and E. McKnight Kauffer's d/j artwork has a resemblance to a 'Monty Python' montage.
I can't help but like Betjeman's poetry ~ not least because I lived for a long time amongst his southern landscapes but also because his jaunty rhythms belie the seriousness of some of his acutely-observed, occasionally tragic, subjects ~ what Evelyn Waugh described as 'Delphic climaxes' and inept transitions. As Peter Quennell says on the back flap, 'there's more to [this] poetry than a pylon on the Sussex Downs'. Written in an era when there was still gaslight to be found in London streets, JB's 'bourgeois' verses nevertheless have many resonances which we can recognise today.… (altro)