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John Betjeman
Greg Morse
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Description for John Betjeman
Paperback. John Betjeman was undoubtedly the most popular Poet Laureate since Tennyson. This book explores his identity through such Victorianism via the verse of that period, but also its architecture, religious faith and - more importantly - religious doubt. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 228 x 15. Weight in Grams: 398.
John Betjeman 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 nineteenth-century forbears. This book explores his identity through such Victorianism via the verse of that period, but also 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 ... Read more
John Betjeman 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 nineteenth-century forbears. This book explores his identity through such Victorianism via the verse of that period, but also 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
398g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845195342
SKU
V9781845195342
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About Greg Morse
Greg Morse became interested in John Betjeman's work around the tenth anniversary of the poet's death in 1994. Having devoured as much Betjeman material as possible, he eventually began reading for a D.Phil at the University of Sussex.
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