Poems in the Porch: The Radio Poems of John Betjeman

ISBN-13: 9781441142184 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 160 str.

Kevin J. Gardner

Opis

Between 1953 and 1957, John Betjeman read a series of poems on 'The Faith in the West' programme on the BBC's West of England Home Service. Among these 'Poems on the Porch' were at least 20 original poems, but our records for the series are incomplete. Kevin Gardner has pieced together 22 of these poems.

Recenzje

Title mention in The Observer, January 2008

Spis treści

Preface
Introduction
The Poems in the Porch
Diary of a Church Mouse
Electric Light and Heating
Christmas
Blame the Vicar
Septuagesima
Churchyards
The Friends of the Cathedral
The Bishop
Advent Bells
The Conversion of St Paul
The Lenten Season
The Parochial Church Council Sunday Morning
Advent 1955 T
he Nativity Play
Three Crosses
Honest Doubt
St Petroc
Not Necessarily Leeds
The St. Paul's Appeal
The Visiting Vicar
God Bless the Church of England
Appendix
Bibliography

O autorze

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.