Selected Poems

John Betjeman (Autor)

Audio-CD

2006
Hodder & Stoughton Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84456-196-4 (ISBN)

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John Betjeman remains one of our best-loved poets - for the first time on CD, Nigel Hawthorne reads a collection of his greatest works

John Betjeman's verse is poignantly evocative of the agonies and delights of growing up. In this collection his adoration of athletic sports girls is celebrated, his tender vision of the landscapes of Cornwall, Pontefract and the London suburbs is vividly evoked, and his ambiguous attitude towards Christianity wittily expressed.

John Betjeman was born in 1906 in London, and went to the Highgate Junior School - where his teachers included T.S. Eliot. After leaving Oxford without a degree, Betjeman was briefly a schoolmaster, then worked for Shell as Editor of their Town Guides, and for the Architectural Review. An increasingly popular poet and television personality, he published his long autobiographical poem 'Summoned by Bells' in 1960, the same year he was awarded his CBE. He was knighted in 1968, and appointed Poet Laureate in 1974. He died in 1984, after a long struggle against Parkinson's disease.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.8.2006
Sprache	englisch
Maße	123 x 144 mm
Gewicht	90 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
ISBN-10	1-84456-196-8 / 1844561968
ISBN-13	978-1-84456-196-4 / 9781844561964
Zustand	Neuware