Betjemans England

Author : Sir John Betjeman
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007416881
Total Pages : 1171 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Betjeman’s Best British Churches written by Sir John Betjeman and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 1171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful and practical up-to-date guide to over two thousand of Britain’s best parish churches.

Author : John Betjeman
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 1848543808
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Betjeman's England written by John Betjeman and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2010-02-04 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than half a century Betjeman's writings have awakened readers to the intimacy of English places - from the smell of gaslight in suburban churches, to the hissing of backwash on a shingle beach. Betjeman is England's greatest topologist: whether he's talking about a townhall or a teashop, he gets to the nub of what makes unexpected places unique. This new collection of his writings, arranged geographically, offers an essential gazetteer to the physical landmarks of Betjeman Country. A new addition to the popular series of Betjeman anthologies, following on from Trains and Buttered Toast and Tennis Whites and Teacakes, this is a treasure trove for any Betjeman fan and for anyone with a love for the rare, curious and unique details of English life.

Author : John Betjeman
Publisher : Stacey International
ISBN 13 : 9781858483672
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Betjeman's Britain written by John Betjeman and published by Stacey International. This book was released on 1999 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Betjeman
Publisher : John Murray Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trains and Buttered Toast written by John Betjeman and published by John Murray Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eccentric, sentimental and homespun, John Betjeman's passions were mostly self-taught. He saw his country being devastated by war and progress and he waged a private war to save it. His only weapons were words--the poetry for which he is best known and, even more influential, the radio talks that first made him a phenomenon. From fervent pleas for provincial preservation to humoresques on eccentric vicars and his own personal demons, Betjeman's talks combined wit, nostalgia and criticism in a way that touched the soul of his listeners from the 1930s to the 1950s. Now, collected in book form for the first time, his broadcasts represent one of the most compelling archives of 20th-century broadcasting.

Author : John Betjeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780719522208
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summoned by Bells written by John Betjeman and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of a boy's growth to early manhood, seaside holidays, meddling arts, school bullies and an unexpected moment of religious awakening.

Author : Philip Payton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780859898478
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Betjeman and Cornwall written by Philip Payton and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I was one of the 8,000-strong 'Betjemaniacs' gathered at Carruan farm in Cornwall in August 2006 to celebrate the hundredth birthday of Sir John Betjeman, the late Poet Laureate. Situated high above Polzeath, with tremendous views out to the azure Atlantic and the great headland of Pentire, Carruan was, with its exhilarating sense of space, an inspirational choice for this great event. I stood in the pasty-queue with the Archbishop of Canterbury, watched the poetic performance of Bert Biscoe, and browsed among the bookstalls in the hope of finding second-hand copies of rare Betjeman books to add to my collection. Here was that Patrick Taylor-Martin volume that had eluded me for years, and Betjeman's Britain - compiled by Candida Lycett Green, Betjeman's daughter - together with more recent editions of old favourites." Philip Payton, in the preface to John Betjeman and Cornwall Quintessentially English, Betjeman was an 'outsider' in England - and doubly so in Cornwall where, as he was the first to admit, he was a 'foreigner'. And yet, as this book describes, Betjeman also strove to acquire a veneer of 'Cornishness', cultivating an alternative Celtic identity, and finding inspiration in Cornwall's Anglo-Catholic tradition. He was also active in Cornish affairs, insisting that Cornwall was not part of England, and championing Cornish environmental concerns that anticipated today's focus on sustainability. The new research in this book includes a wealth of previously ignored source material, forming a lively new account of Betjeman's life and work and his defining relationship with Cornwall. This book is likely to be controversial and to provoke debate.

Author : John Betjeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Betjeman's Collected Poems written by John Betjeman and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Betjeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Pictorial History of English Architecture written by John Betjeman and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Betjeman
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tennis Whites and Teacakes written by John Betjeman and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2007 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Betjeman's England is a place of patriotic poets and seaside coves, provincial cathedrals and eccentric dons. For fifty years, Betjeman celebrated the glories of Englishness and what it meant to be English. Against a tide of rapid change, he unearthed forgotten heroes, bygone haunts and old-fashioned modes of thought. But as this original collection reveals, his appeal goes far beyond simple nostalgia. It lies in his passionate convictions, his humour and his humanity. What does it mean to be English? What is Englishness? For fifty years, at a time when other people were becoming more internationally aware, John Betjeman immersed himself in the glories of English culture - its places, its writings, its heroes. Seaside architecture, national poets, the great cathedrals, our ancient townscapes - all were hard-won achievements, he pleaded, with pleasures and delights that we threw away at our peril. Tennis Whites and Teacakes brings together the best of Betjeman's poetry, private letters, journalism and musings to present a fully rounded picture of what he stood for. From his arguments for new steel buildings to his amusement about the etiquette of village teashops, it reveals Betjeman not just as a sentimentalist but as a passionate observer with a wonderful sense of humour and an acute eye.

Author : John Betjeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sir John Betjeman's Guide to English Parish Churches written by John Betjeman and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1958, the Collins Guide to English Parish Churches, edited by John Betjeman, won its way into the hearts of all those who love the churches of England and Wales.