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Betjeman's Britain by John Betjeman
Category: Poetry
John Betjeman reads his own poetry in a selection taken from the BBC archives. Sir John Betjeman was one of the best-known and loved Poet Laureates. Even after his death, his popularity continues to garner acclaim and new admirers. Fortunately, he left behind a legacy of poetry readings and performances ...Show more
Classic Hymns and Carols by John Betjeman
Category: Philosophy and Religion
* A must-have source for any celebration, from weddings and Christmas to christenings and funerals. * This inspiring collection includes traditional and modern favourites, such as Jerusalem, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, All Things Bright and Beautiful, The Holly and the Ivy and Abide with Me. * Contain ...Show more
Collected Poems by John Betjeman
Category: Gift
Come, friendly bombs, and fall on SloughTo get it ready for the plough.The cabbages are coming now;The earth exhales.--from "Slough" When the beloved English poet John Betjeman's "Collected Poems "first appeared in 1958, it made publishing history, and has now sold more than two million copies to a stea ...Show more
Coming Home: Selected Prose of Sir John Betjeman by John Betjeman
Category: Classic Fiction
From 1930 until shortly before his death he shared with countless readers, listeners and viewers his remarkably catholic passions for books, people and places. Coming Home gathers together a selection from over four decades of his writings about buildings, townscape and landscape, together with apprecia ...Show more
FIRST & LAST LOVES by BETJEMAN JOHN
Category: Home and Garden
'Oh prams on concrete balconies, what will your children see? Oh white and antiseptic life in school and home and clinic, oh soul-destroying job with handy pension, oh loveless life of safe monotony, why were you created?' First and Last Loves is a collection of Betjeman's essays on architecture, first ...Show more
Harvest Bells: New and Uncollected Poems by John Betjeman by John Betjeman
Category: Poetry
A charming new collection of previously undiscovered poems by Sir John Betjeman. John Betjeman (1906-1984), the former poet laureate, remains one of Britain's foremost and much-loved writers whose poetry has passed into the collective memory as an affectionate and witty monument to twentieth century B ...Show more
JOHN BETJEMAN : COLLECTED POEMS by John Betjeman
Category: Poetry
Collected Poems made publishing history when it first appeared, and has now sold more than two million copies, to an ever-growing readership. This newly expanded edition includes Betjeman's verse autobiography, Summoned by Bells. With a new Introduction by Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion, Collected Poems i ...Show more
Summoned by Bells : A Life in Verse (Audio) by John Betjeman (Author & reader)
Category: Audio Books
The late Poet Laureate John Betjeman reads his own poetic autobiography. In the much-loved tones of Sir John himself, this magnificent autobiography in verse captures the voice of the late Poet Laureate. From his earliest boyhood memories of Highgate and Archibald, his old stuffed bear, through to his u ...Show more
The Best of Betjeman by John Betjeman
Category: Poetry
John Betjeman was one of the most obstinately uncategorizable writers of the twentieth century. This acclaimed selection of his work contains both poetry and prose, as well as a slightly abbreviated version of Metro-land.
The Illustrated Summoned by Bells by John Betjeman; Hugh Casson (Illustrator)
Category: Biography
John Betjeman's verse autobiography has sold more copies than any other English poem of its length this century. The touching story of a boy's growth to early manhood and the mixed joys and guilt of youth, it is also supremely a poem about places, buildings and surroundings - Highgate and Pooterland, t ...Show more
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