Betjeman
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A Few Late Chrysanthemums
- £25.00
- An anthology of poetry grouped under the headings - medium, light and gloom -with a variety of subject and mood including poems entitled 'Christmas', 'Business Girls' 'The Olympic Girl' and 'How To Get On In Society'
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A Garland for the Laureate – Poems presented to Sir John Betjeman on his 75th birthday
- £65.00
- 22 poems, most of which were written for the occasion of Betjeman's 75th birthday. Contributors: Dannie Abse, Kingsley Amis, Patricia Beer, Alan Brownjohn, Leonard Clark, Charles Causley, Patric Dickinson, Roy Fuller, Ted Hughes, Elizabeth Jennings, Philip Larkin, Edward Lowbury, Norman Nicholson, Alan Ross, A. L. Rowse, Sacheverell Sitwell, Stephen Spender,…
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Betjeman
- £12.00
- John Betjeman was by far the most popular poet of the twentieth century. His collected poems sold over two million copies. Television audiences loved his quirky evocations of landcsape and architecture. As Poet Laureate, he became a national icon, but behind the public man were doubts and demons. The poet…
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Betjeman’s Britain – Folio
- £20.00
- An anthology of Betjeman's writing about Britain, selected and edited by Candida Lycett-Green, together with extracts from his and others' poetry (with numerous b/w images)
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Church Poems
- £25.00
- This volume gathers together all of Betjeman's "Church poems," as well as some new poems and others previously been out of print. John Betjeman enlarges any scene, not only into his own personal significances, but into those of us all, and never more so than in his Anglican explorations. In…
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Church Poems
- £45.00
- This volume gathers together all of Betjeman's "Church poems," as well as some new poems and others previously been out of print. John Betjeman enlarges any scene, not only into his own personal significances, but into those of us all, and never more so than in his Anglican explorations. In…
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Continual Dew, a little book of bourgeois verse
- £25.00
- Facsimile edition of Betjeman's second book of verse but the first to have wide readership (first published in 1937, with illustrations by Osbert Lancaster and de Cronin Hastings.
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John Betjeman (Writers and their Work)
- £9.00
- Sir John Betjeman remains the most popular English poet of today. He has been termed a `national teddy bear', and some commentary has addressed his work in rather such terms. However, it is evident that most of his key themes - the spirit of place (or `place-myth'), mundane lives (`petit…
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John Betjeman’s Collected Poems
- £14.00
- Lord Birkenhead's famous compilation made publishing history when first published, has sold over two million copies.
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John Betjeman’s Collected Poems
- £10.00
- Earl of Birkenhead’s compilation
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John BetjemanÕs Collected Poems
- £10.00
- Earl of BirkenheadÕs compilation
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Poems in the Porch
- £20.00
- Poems on ecclesiastical themes, written for broadcasting on Western Region radio, at request of Martin Willson, Director of Religious Broadcasting.
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Poetry in Motion
- £12.00
- Alan Bennett brings his own unique observations to six of Britain's finest and most popular poets. The collection comprises poems by Thomas Hardy, A.E. Housman, W.H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, John Betjeman and Philip Larkin.
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Summoned by Bells
- £35.00
- From the leafy streets of Edwardian Hampstead to the halls of Oxford, this is the stirring early life of John Betjeman told in his own lively blank verse. Betjeman describes in lush detail hisformative years: the sounds and smells of a middle-class childhood spent in Cornwall; his discovery of literature…
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Summoned by Bells
- £60.00
- From the leafy streets of Edwardian Hampstead to the halls of Oxford, this is the stirring early life of John Betjeman told in his own lively blank verse. Betjeman describes in lush detail his formative years: the sounds and smells of a middle-class childhood spent in Cornwall; his discovery of…
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Summoned by Bells
- £15.00
- From the leafy streets of Edwardian Hampstead to the halls of Oxford, this is the stirring early life of John Betjeman told in his own lively blank verse. Betjeman describes in lush detail hisformative years: the sounds and smells of a middle-class childhood spent in Cornwall; his discovery of literature…
- Add to basket
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T.S. Eliot: A symposium
- £40.00
- A fine festschrift for Eliot on his 60th Birthday, in the year that he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (1948), including contributions by Auden, Aiken, Moore, Lewis, Betjeman, Durrell, Spender, Muir and many others. It was compiled by Richard March and the Sri Lankan poet (and founder of…
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The Best of Betjeman
- £15.00
- 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…
- Add to basket
-
A Few Late Chrysanthemums
- £25.00
- An anthology of poetry grouped under the headings - medium, light and gloom -with a variety of subject and mood including poems entitled 'Christmas', 'Business Girls' 'The Olympic Girl' and 'How To Get On In Society'
- Add to basket
-
A Garland for the Laureate – Poems presented to Sir John Betjeman on his 75th birthday
- £65.00
- 22 poems, most of which were written for the occasion of Betjeman's 75th birthday. Contributors: Dannie Abse, Kingsley Amis, Patricia Beer, Alan Brownjohn, Leonard Clark, Charles Causley, Patric Dickinson, Roy Fuller, Ted Hughes, Elizabeth Jennings, Philip Larkin, Edward Lowbury, Norman Nicholson, Alan Ross, A. L. Rowse, Sacheverell Sitwell, Stephen Spender,…
- Add to basket
-
Betjeman
- £12.00
- John Betjeman was by far the most popular poet of the twentieth century. His collected poems sold over two million copies. Television audiences loved his quirky evocations of landcsape and architecture. As Poet Laureate, he became a national icon, but behind the public man were doubts and demons. The poet…
- Add to basket
-
Betjeman’s Britain – Folio
- £20.00
- An anthology of Betjeman's writing about Britain, selected and edited by Candida Lycett-Green, together with extracts from his and others' poetry (with numerous b/w images)
- Add to basket
-
Church Poems
- £25.00
- This volume gathers together all of Betjeman's "Church poems," as well as some new poems and others previously been out of print. John Betjeman enlarges any scene, not only into his own personal significances, but into those of us all, and never more so than in his Anglican explorations. In…
- Add to basket
-
Church Poems
- £45.00
- This volume gathers together all of Betjeman's "Church poems," as well as some new poems and others previously been out of print. John Betjeman enlarges any scene, not only into his own personal significances, but into those of us all, and never more so than in his Anglican explorations. In…
- Add to basket
-
Continual Dew, a little book of bourgeois verse
- £25.00
- Facsimile edition of Betjeman's second book of verse but the first to have wide readership (first published in 1937, with illustrations by Osbert Lancaster and de Cronin Hastings.
- Add to basket
-
John Betjeman (Writers and their Work)
- £9.00
- Sir John Betjeman remains the most popular English poet of today. He has been termed a `national teddy bear', and some commentary has addressed his work in rather such terms. However, it is evident that most of his key themes - the spirit of place (or `place-myth'), mundane lives (`petit…
- Add to basket
-
John Betjeman’s Collected Poems
- £14.00
- Lord Birkenhead's famous compilation made publishing history when first published, has sold over two million copies.
- Add to basket
-
John Betjeman’s Collected Poems
- £10.00
- Earl of Birkenhead’s compilation
- Add to basket
-
John BetjemanÕs Collected Poems
- £10.00
- Earl of BirkenheadÕs compilation
- Add to basket
-
Poems in the Porch
- £20.00
- Poems on ecclesiastical themes, written for broadcasting on Western Region radio, at request of Martin Willson, Director of Religious Broadcasting.
- Add to basket
-
Poetry in Motion
- £12.00
- Alan Bennett brings his own unique observations to six of Britain's finest and most popular poets. The collection comprises poems by Thomas Hardy, A.E. Housman, W.H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, John Betjeman and Philip Larkin.
- Add to basket
-
Summoned by Bells
- £35.00
- From the leafy streets of Edwardian Hampstead to the halls of Oxford, this is the stirring early life of John Betjeman told in his own lively blank verse. Betjeman describes in lush detail hisformative years: the sounds and smells of a middle-class childhood spent in Cornwall; his discovery of literature…
- Add to basket
-
Summoned by Bells
- £60.00
- From the leafy streets of Edwardian Hampstead to the halls of Oxford, this is the stirring early life of John Betjeman told in his own lively blank verse. Betjeman describes in lush detail his formative years: the sounds and smells of a middle-class childhood spent in Cornwall; his discovery of…
- Add to basket
-
Summoned by Bells
- £15.00
- From the leafy streets of Edwardian Hampstead to the halls of Oxford, this is the stirring early life of John Betjeman told in his own lively blank verse. Betjeman describes in lush detail hisformative years: the sounds and smells of a middle-class childhood spent in Cornwall; his discovery of literature…
- Add to basket
-
T.S. Eliot: A symposium
- £40.00
- A fine festschrift for Eliot on his 60th Birthday, in the year that he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (1948), including contributions by Auden, Aiken, Moore, Lewis, Betjeman, Durrell, Spender, Muir and many others. It was compiled by Richard March and the Sri Lankan poet (and founder of…
- Add to basket
-
The Best of Betjeman
- £15.00
- 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…
- Add to basket
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