John Betjeman was born in 1906 and educated at Marlborough and Magdalen College, Oxford. He gave his first Radio talk in 1932; future appearances made him into a national celebrity. He was knighted in 1969 and appointed poet laureate in 1972. He died in 1984.
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Preface Introduction Notes
HARVEST BELLS: NEW AND UNCOLLECTED POEMS A.D. 1980 Ye Olde Cottage (Quite Near a Town) The Song of a Cold Wind A Sentimental Poem Sweets and Cake Dentist's Dining Room Sezincote Pastoral Incident A Squib on Norman Cameron Blisland, Bodmin Home Thoughts from Exile Work Popular Song Nine O'Clock Emily Wren The Tamarisks Sonnet Wisteria Branches A Poem by My Old Bear Archibald Harvest Bells Country Silence Channel Crossing Eighteenth-Century Pint Lerici 1930 Evangelistic Hymn Sudden Conversion Zion The Outer Suburbs St Aloysius Church, Oxford Charterhouse School Song London Spreading Satires of Circumstance The Heartless Heart's Ease: A Lament by Tom Moore The Most Popular Girl in School The Electrification of Lambourne End Edgware The Wykehamist at Home Tea with the Poets A Poet's Prayer On Miss E. Badger, 9 Beverley Gardens, Wembley Park, Middlesex, Who Sat Opposite to Me on the GWR, Ascension Day 1939 Big Business Chestnut Hair Clifton 1940 Order Reigns in Warsaw Prologue Specially Written for the 70th Anniversary Gaiety Theatre, Dublin To Uffington Ringers Rosemary Hall The Tailwaggers' Friend Margate, 1946 A Memory of 1940 Aberdeen In Overcliffe October Bells The Corporation Architect The Weary Journalist The Death of the University Reader of Spanish A Curate for Great Kirkby Clay and Spirit Not Necessarily Leeds The St Paul's Appeal The Divine Society Village Wedding John Edward Bowle 1962 Prologue Spoken by Peggy Ashcroft at the Opening of Peggy Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon, 5 November 1962 A Good Investment St Mary's Chapel of Ease The Finest Work in England: I.K. Brunel La Cometa Moraira A Lament for Middlesex Castle Howard Lines Read at the Wing Airport Resistance Movement Protest Meeting, June 1970 Sonnet Revenge St Mary-le-Strand My Landlady's Dog Guyhirn Chapel of Ease St Bartholomew's Hospital Who Took Away... Lines on the Unmasking of the Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures Dawlish
Notes on the poems Appendix A: A Portuguese Translation Appendix B: A Possible Attribution
HARVEST BELLS: NEW AND UNCOLLECTED POEMS A.D. 1980 Ye Olde Cottage (Quite Near a Town) The Song of a Cold Wind A Sentimental Poem Sweets and Cake Dentist's Dining Room Sezincote Pastoral Incident A Squib on Norman Cameron Blisland, Bodmin Home Thoughts from Exile Work Popular Song Nine O'Clock Emily Wren The Tamarisks Sonnet Wisteria Branches A Poem by My Old Bear Archibald Harvest Bells Country Silence Channel Crossing Eighteenth-Century Pint Lerici 1930 Evangelistic Hymn Sudden Conversion Zion The Outer Suburbs St Aloysius Church, Oxford Charterhouse School Song London Spreading Satires of Circumstance The Heartless Heart's Ease: A Lament by Tom Moore The Most Popular Girl in School The Electrification of Lambourne End Edgware The Wykehamist at Home Tea with the Poets A Poet's Prayer On Miss E. Badger, 9 Beverley Gardens, Wembley Park, Middlesex, Who Sat Opposite to Me on the GWR, Ascension Day 1939 Big Business Chestnut Hair Clifton 1940 Order Reigns in Warsaw Prologue Specially Written for the 70th Anniversary Gaiety Theatre, Dublin To Uffington Ringers Rosemary Hall The Tailwaggers' Friend Margate, 1946 A Memory of 1940 Aberdeen In Overcliffe October Bells The Corporation Architect The Weary Journalist The Death of the University Reader of Spanish A Curate for Great Kirkby Clay and Spirit Not Necessarily Leeds The St Paul's Appeal The Divine Society Village Wedding John Edward Bowle 1962 Prologue Spoken by Peggy Ashcroft at the Opening of Peggy Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon, 5 November 1962 A Good Investment St Mary's Chapel of Ease The Finest Work in England: I.K. Brunel La Cometa Moraira A Lament for Middlesex Castle Howard Lines Read at the Wing Airport Resistance Movement Protest Meeting, June 1970 Sonnet Revenge St Mary-le-Strand My Landlady's Dog Guyhirn Chapel of Ease St Bartholomew's Hospital Who Took Away... Lines on the Unmasking of the Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures Dawlish
Notes on the poems Appendix A: A Portuguese Translation Appendix B: A Possible Attribution
Rezensionen
Kevin J Gardner has dug up 80 or so lost or neglected poems from the archives, which show the full range of Betjeman's oeuvre over half a century. The Sunday Times
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