John Betjeman

Author: Betjeman, Sir John

Brand: Penguin Random House

Edition: Main - 80th anniversary edition

Binding: hardcover

Number Of Pages: 112

Release Date: 23-06-2009

Details: Product Description
Sir John Betjeman (1906-84) was born in Highgate, the son of a manufacturer of Dutch descent. His poetry enjoyed immense popularity, as did his personality, and his knighthood in 1969 and appointment as Poet Laureate in 1972 were universally welcomed.Other volumes in this series: Auden, Eliot, Plath, Hughes and Yeats.
Book Description
A new selection of John Betjeman poems, chosen by Hugo Williams, as o
ne of six wonderful poetry collections published to celebrate Faber's eightieth anniversary.
About the Author
Poet and architectural critic, Sir John Betjeman was born in North London in 1906. He was taught by T S Eliot at Highgate Junior School and was rusticated from Magdalen College Oxford for failing Divinity. He published several poetry collections, including
New Bats in Old Belfries and
A Few Late Chrysanthemums, and several works on architecture. His
Collected Poems was published in 1958 and the first edition sold over 100,000 copies. He was knighted in 1969 and appointed Poet Laureate in 1972. He died in Cornwall in 1984.

Hugo Williams was born in 1942 and grew up in Sussex. He worked on the
London Magazine from 1961 to 1970, since when he has earned his living as a journalist and travel writer.
Billy's Rain won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 1999. His
Collected Poems was published by Faber in 2002 and his last collection,
I Knew the Bride, was published in 2014 and shortlisted for the Forward and T. S. Eliot prizes. In 2004 he received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.

EAN: 9780571247028

Package Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches

Languages: English