Harvest Bells: New and Uncollected Poems by John Betjeman

ISBN-13: 9781472966384 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 240 str.

Sir John Betjeman

Opis

A charming new collection of previously undiscovered poems by Sir John Betjeman.

Recenzje

Kevin J Gardner has dug up 80 or so lost or neglected poems from the archives, which show the full range of Betjeman's oeuvre over half a century The Sunday Times

O autorze

John Betjeman was born in 1906 and educated at Marlborough and Magdalen College, Oxford. He gave his first Radio talk in 1932; future appearances made him into a national celebrity. He was knighted in 1969 and appointed poet laureate in 1972. He died in 1984. Kevin Gardner is Professor of English Literature at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He has recently published a scholarly monograph on Betjeman's Christian imagination.