An anthology of the legendary laureate John Betjeman's finest prose on art, architecture, literature, landscape and much more.
John Betjeman was born in 1906 and educated at Marlborough and Oxford. He was best-known and loved as a poet and received many of the major British literary prizes- the Royal Society of Literature Award under the Heinemann Bequest; the annual Foyle Poetry Prize (twice); and the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize. Betjeman was a founder of the British Victorian Society, he was a well-known broadcaster and journalist as well as a leading authority on architecture and topographical subjects. In 1960 he was given the CBE; in 1969 he was knighted by the Queen; and in 1972 he was appointed Poet Laureate. He died in 1984.
What a delightful book... Betjeman has the precious ability to see
beauty in so many places, things and people, and to describe them
so effectively that we are persuaded to recognise their beauty also
and to wish to see for ourselves
*Literary Review*
There is something to enjoy in virtually every item in this
carefully chosen anthology, but the most individual and
characteristically Betjemanic pieces are those about his abiding
loves: the landscape and the buildings of England
*Daily Telegraph*
In addition to revealing and amusing- and artistically astute
pieces about artistic contemporaries such as Waugh, Auden and
Epstein- there are autobiographical sections of shocking
self-knowingness
*Independent on Sunday*
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