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Building Jerusalem: Elegies on Parish Churches
Kevin J. Gardner
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Description for Building Jerusalem: Elegies on Parish Churches
Hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages, No illustrations. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 144 x 26. Weight in Grams: 358.
Nostalgia and love of parish churches is deeply embedded in the British psyche. Following the success of Poems in the Porch, a collection of hitherto unpublished poems on parish churches by Sir John Betjeman, Kevin Gardner has now assembled a new anthology of poems on the same theme yet with a greater diversity of post-war authors - Philip Larkin, R. S. Thomas, John Betjeman, C. Day Lewis, U. A. Fanthorpe and many others. The collection is introduced by a fascinating critical introduction, `Anglican Memory and Post-war British Poetry' and will appeal to church and poetry lovers alike in their droves. ... Read more
Nostalgia and love of parish churches is deeply embedded in the British psyche. Following the success of Poems in the Porch, a collection of hitherto unpublished poems on parish churches by Sir John Betjeman, Kevin Gardner has now assembled a new anthology of poems on the same theme yet with a greater diversity of post-war authors - Philip Larkin, R. S. Thomas, John Betjeman, C. Day Lewis, U. A. Fanthorpe and many others. The collection is introduced by a fascinating critical introduction, `Anglican Memory and Post-war British Poetry' and will appeal to church and poetry lovers alike in their droves. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472924353
SKU
9781472924353
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99-2
About Kevin J. Gardner
Dr Kevin J. Gardner is Professor of English at Baylor University, Texas. He has published numerous scholarly essays on British poetry. His books include Poems in the Porch (Continuum) Faith and Doubt of John Betjeman (Continuum) and Betjeman and the Anglican Imagination (SPCK).
Reviews for Building Jerusalem: Elegies on Parish Churches
A church without a poem is a steeple without a bell, a choir without a hymn. Thank you Kevin Gardner for composing such a glorious sound, and from friends old and new. It will enhance every church visitor's bliss.
Sir Simon Jenkins
A plangent, devastating elegy for a Church of England apparently in its death throes ... One ... Read more
Sir Simon Jenkins
A plangent, devastating elegy for a Church of England apparently in its death throes ... One ... Read more