John Betjeman (1906–1984)
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A leading modern champion of the values of an older England, John Betjeman was born in Highgate, London, to a well-off merchant family. The loneliness and suffering of his upbringing, first under nursemaids and then at a series of schools, often surface in his poetry. He went to Magdalene College, näytä lisää Oxford, where he belonged to the same smart social set as Evelyn Waugh. Deliberately free from the difficulties of much modern verse, Betjeman's poetry harks back to a more accessible British tradition that includes Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Thomas Hardy. With quiet wit he resisted the debasements of modern mass culture in favor of an older England simpler, more rural, and more religious than the current one. Both W. H. Auden and Philip Larkin especially admired his work, and Auden even edited a selection of it. His harsher critics have found him unintellectual and sentimental. His poetry has achieved a huge circulation in Great Britain, with the Collected Poems (1958) reputedly selling more than 100,000 copies. Considered a national institution, he succeeded Cecil Day Lewis as poet laureate in 1972. Betjeman worked in a variety of media and achieved wide public attention as host for a television series on the history of British architecture, one of his prime interests. He wrote a great deal on architecture, especially for the Architectural Review. Betjeman died in 1984. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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Ghastly good taste; or, A depressing story of the rise and fall of English architecture (1933) 96 kappaletta
English, Scottish and Welsh Landscape, 1700-c. 1860. [Poems.] Chosen by J. Betjeman and G. Taylor. With original… (1978) 7 kappaletta
Mount Zion : or, In touch with the infinite 6 kappaletta
Westminster Cathedral (guide to the architecture and interior the history and pastoral functions of the metropolitan… (1990) 4 kappaletta
Antiquarian prejudice 3 kappaletta
Metro-Land 3 kappaletta
John Betjeman and the Railways 3 kappaletta
John Betjeman Collection: "Summoned by Bells", "Poetry from the BBC Archives", "Recollections from the BBC Archives"… (2000) 3 kappaletta
Betjeman's Britain [Import anglais] 2 kappaletta
Metro-land 2 kappaletta
The Golden Treasury of John Betjaman 1 kappale
John Betjeman letters: volume one,1926 to 1951, and, volume two, 1951 to 1984 (1994) — Tekijä — 1 kappale
Six Betjeman Songs 1 kappale
Murray's Buckinghamshire Guide 1 kappale
Late Flowering Lust 1 kappale
In Westminster Abbey 1 kappale
Antiquarian Predjudice 1 kappale
Varsity Rag 1 kappale
Some Irish Churchyard Sculpture 1 kappale
Sir John Betjeman's Britain 1 kappale
West Country Churches: Four Essays 1 kappale
Poems 1 kappale
Pocket Poets, The 1 kappale
John Betjeman's Collected Poems 1 kappale
Diary Of A Church Mouse 1 kappale
The Poems of John Betjeman 1 kappale
A Whale of a Story Review of Moby Dick by Herman Melville Daily Herald, 9 January 1947, p. 2. (1947) 1 kappale
John Betjeman - A Bird's Eye View [DVD] 1 kappale
The Great Days of the Country Railway 1 kappale
Highgate Cemetery 1 kappale
John Betjeman - A Bird's Eye View [DVD] 1 kappale
Branchline Railway [VHS] 1 kappale
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Avustaja, eräät painokset — 915 kappaletta
Noblesse Oblige: An Enquiry into the Identifiable Characteristics of the English Aristocracy (1956) — Avustaja — 427 kappaletta
Shell Guide : South-West Wales : Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire (1963) — Toimittaja — 17 kappaletta
Shell Guide : Oxfordshire — Toimittaja — 5 kappaletta
Shell Guide : Herefordshire — Toimittaja — 4 kappaletta
Metro-Land 3 kappaletta
Anton — Esipuhe — 1 kappale
Avallaunius, Winter 1997, Seventeen : the journal of the Arthur Machen Society (1997) — Avustaja — 1 kappale
The London Mercury Vol Xxvii No 158 December 1932 — Avustaja — 1 kappale
Festival of the City of London : 1962 programme book — Avustaja — 1 kappale
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- Syntymäaika
- 1906-08-28
- Kuolinaika
- 1984-05-19
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- England (birth)
UK - Syntymäpaikka
- Highgate, London, England, UK
- Kuolinpaikka
- Trebetherick, Cornwall, England
- Asuinpaikat
- London, England, UK
Trebetherick, Cornwall, England, UK
Dublin, Ireland
Uffington, England, UK
Farnborough, Hampshire, England, UK
Wantage, Oxfordshire, England, UK - Koulutus
- University of Oxford (Magdalen College)
Byron House
Highgate School
Dragon School
Marlborough College - Ammatit
- poet
writer
broadcaster - Suhteet
- Chetwode, Penelope (wife)
Green, Candida Lycett (daughter)
Green, Imogen Lycett (granddaughter)
Eliot, T. S. (teacher)
Lewis, C. S. (tutor)
Wilson, Mary (friend) - Organisaatiot
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary ∙ Literature ∙ 1973)
Friends of Friendless Churches - Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Royal Society of Literature Companion of Literature
Order of the British Empire (Commander, 1960)
Knight Bachelor (1969)
Poet Laureate of England (1972) - Lyhyt elämäkerta
- Sir John Betjeman, (1906 – 1984) was a twentieth-century English poet, writer and broadcaster. Born to a middle-class family in Edwardian Hampstead, he attended Oxford University, and his early ability in writing poetry and interest in architecture supported him throughout his life. Starting his career as a journalist, he ended it as British Poet Laureate and a much-loved figure on British television. His works include poetry, prose and television appearances.
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