Faith And Doubt Of John Betjeman

Author : Kevin J. Gardner
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826482724
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faith and Doubt of John Betjeman written by Kevin J. Gardner and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-10-30 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of the best of Sir John Betjeman's religious verse with a brilliant introductory and scholarly essay.

Author : John Betjeman
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ISBN 13 :
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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 : William S. Peterson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198184034
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Betjeman written by William S. Peterson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography describes all John Betjeman's known writings, including his own books, contributions to periodicals and to books by others, lectures, and radio and television programs. Other categories include editorships and interviews, as well as a section devoted to writings about him. Manuscripts and drafts of his works are described in detail.

Author : David Scott Kastan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199725314
Total Pages : 2656 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature written by David Scott Kastan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-03 with total page 2656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From folk ballads to film scripts, this new five-volume encyclopedia covers the entire history of British literature from the seventh century to the present, focusing on the writers and the major texts of what are now the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. In five hundred substantial essays written by major scholars, the Encyclopedia of British Literature includes biographies of nearly four hundred individual authors and a hundred topical essays with detailed analyses of particular themes, movements, genres, and institutions whose impact upon the writing or the reading of literature was significant. An ideal companion to The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature, this set will prove invaluable for students, scholars, and general readers. For more information, including a complete table of contents and list of contributors, please visit www.oup.com/us/ebl

Author : Kevin J. Gardner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781602584860
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Betjeman written by Kevin J. Gardner and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Greg Morse
Publisher : Apollo Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845195342
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Betjeman written by Greg Morse and published by Apollo Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Betjeman (1906-1984) was undoubtedly the most popular Poet Laureate since Tennyson. But, beneath the thoroughly modern window on Britain that he opened during his lifetime lay the influence of his 19th-century Victorian forebears. This book - now available in paperback - explores Betjeman's identity through such Victorianism via the verse of that period, as well as its architecture, religious faith, and - more importantly - religious doubt. It was, nevertheless, a process which took time. In the 1930s, Betjeman's work was tinted with modernism and traditionalism. He found Victorian buildings 'funny' and wrote much in praise of the Bauhaus style, even though his early poetry was peppered with Victorian references. This leaning was incorporated into a greater sense of purpose during World War II, when he transformed himself from precious humorist into propagandist. The resulting sense of cohesion grew when the dangers of post-war urban redevelopment heightened the need to critique the present via the poetics of the past, a mood which continued up to and beyond his gaining the Laureateship in 1972. This duty proved to be a millstone, so the 'official' poems are thus explored by the author more fully than hitherto. The book concludes with a look back to Betjeman's 1960 verse-autobiography, Summoned by Bells, which is seen as the apogee of his achievement and a snapshot of his identity. Included here is the first critical appreciation of the lyrics embodied within the text, which are taken as a map of the young poet's literary growth. The book leads to a final appraisal of his originality, as evidenced by his glances towards postmodernism, feminism, and post-colonialism. The fact is that Betjeman never quite fits in anywhere. He is always a square peg in a round hole or a round peg in a square hole, often for the sheer enjoyment of so being. In a sense, his desire to be as non-conformist as a Quaker meeting house makes him a radical, rather than the reactionary that his interests imply. He was a champion of beauty and the British Isles, and clearly did much to make the British see the worth of their Victorian forebears.

Author : Deborah Alun-Jones
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500771510
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wry Romance of the Literary Rectory written by Deborah Alun-Jones and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully written book that tells the stories of historic rectories across England and Wales and the writers past and present who have been associated with them As the sons and daughters of clergy, many of Britain’s most popular writers have grown up in rectories, parsonages, and vicarages—Jane Austen, Alfred Tennyson, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Edmund de Waal among them—while other writers have been drawn to their romance and seclusion. The period that Rupert Brooke spent living out a neo-pagan fantasy in idyllic Grantchester, near Cambridge, greatly influenced his 1912 poem ”The Old Vicarage,“ a work that became a romantic touchstone for an idealized national identity at a time of war. The Old Rectory on the Berkshire Downs was the locus of John Betjeman’s campaign to revive the parochial parish life whose disappearance he deeply regretted. The rectory has also been home to eccentrics such as Sydney Smith of Foston Rectory in remote North Yorkshire. This wit and essayist was known for his unorthodox sermons and astute contributions to the Edinburgh Review. Compelled to abandon his London life by the enforcement of the Residence Act of 1803, which required priests to live in or near their parishes, Smith bemoaned a posting that was, he wrote, “twelve miles from a lemon.” Nonetheless he threw himself into rural life—and often off his horse, Calamity, in the process.

Author : Alexander Ross
Publisher : SCM Press
ISBN 13 : 0334059348
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Still More Excellent Way written by Alexander Ross and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2020-07-10 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Still More Excellent Way" presents a comprehensive account of the development and nature of metropolitical authority and the place of the ‘province’ within Anglican polity, with an emphasis on the contemporary question of how international Anglicanism is to be imagined and take shape. The first comprehensive historical examination of the development of metropolitical authority and provincial polity within international Anglicanism, the book offers hope to those wearied by the deadlock and frustration around questions of authority which have dogged Anglicanism.

Author : Ewa Panecka
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443858544
Total Pages : 255 pages
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Download or read book Literature and the Monarchy written by Ewa Panecka and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the Laureateship as an exponent of complex relations between literature and the Monarchy, and defines the nature and mode of existence of laureate poetry in England from the Restoration up to the present day. With the Monarchy seen as a long-lasting foundation of Englishness, the institution of Poet Laureateship provides a symbolic component of national identity, an official link between literature, culture and the Monarchy.

Author : John Ortberg
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310253519
Total Pages : 196 pages
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Download or read book Faith and Doubt written by John Ortberg and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2008 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ortberg demonstrates how doubt is very much a part of faith and how uncertainty can lead to trust. "The beliefs that really matter," he writes, "are the ones that guide our behavior."