John Betjeman

Collected Poems

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Produktbeschreibung

Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough To get it ready for the plough. The cabbages are coming now; The earth exhales. --from "Slough" When the beloved English poet John Betjeman's Collected Poems first appeared in 1958, it made publishing history, and has now sold more than two million copies to a steadily expanding readership. Betjeman is almost unique among poets in that his work appeals equally strongly to those who love poetry and to those who rarely read it. This volume, the first American edition of the Collected Poems, incorporates all the poems that Betjeman published after the original Collected Poems and includes a new foreword by Britain's poet laureate, Andrew Motion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Farrar, Straus, Giroux
• Seitenzahl: 530
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9780374126537
• ISBN-10: 0374126534
• Artikelnr.: 20897138

Autorenporträt

John Betjeman; Introduction by Andrew Motion

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction by Andrew Motion
MOUNT ZION (1932)
Death in Leamington
Hymn
The 'Varsity Students' Rag
The City
An Eighteenth-Century Calvinistic Hymn
For Nineteenth-Century Burials
Camberley
Croydon
Westgate-on-Sea
The Wykehamist
The Sandemanian Meeting-House in Highbury Quadrant
CONTINUAL DEW (1937)
The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel
Distant View of a Provincial Town
Slough
Clash went the Billiard Balls
Love in a Valley
An Impoverish Irish Peer
Our Padre
Exchange of Livings
Undenominational
City
A Hike on the Downs
Dorset
Calvinistic Evensong
Exeter
Death of King George V
The Heart of Thomas Hardy
Suicide on the Junction Road Station after Abstention from Evening
Communion in North London
The Flight from Bootle
Public House Drunk
OLD LIGHTS FOR NEW CHANCELS (1940)
Cheltenham
A Shropshire Lad
Upper Lambourne
Pot Pourri from a Surrey Garden
Holy Trinity, Sloane Street
On Seeing an Old Poet in the Café Royal
An Incident in the Early Life of Ebenezer Jones, Poet, 1828
Trebetherick
Oxford: Sudden Illness at the Bus-stop
Group Life: Letchworth
Bristol and Clifton
Sir John Piers
Myfanwy
Myfanwy at Oxford
Lake District
In Westminster Abbey
Senex
Olney Hymns
On a Portrait of a Deaf Man
Saint Cadoc
Blackfriars
NEW BATS IN OLD BELFRIES (1945)
Henley-on-Thames
Parliament Hill Fields
A Subaltern's Love-song
Bristol
On an Old-Fashioned Water-Colour of Oxford
A Lincolnshire Tale
St. Barnabas, Oxford
An Archaeological Picnic
May-Day Song for North Oxford
Before Invasion, 1940
Ireland with Emily
Margate, 1940
Invasion Exercise on the Poultry Farm
The Planster's Vision
In a Bath Teashop
Before the Anaesthetic, or A Real Fight
On Hearing the Full Peal of Ten Bells from Christ Church, Swindon, Wilts.
Youth and Age on Beaulieu River, Hants
East Anglian Bathe
Sunday Afternoon Service in St. Enodoc Church, Cornwall
The Irish Unionist's Farewell to Greta Hellstrom in 1922
In Memory of Basil, Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
South London Sketch, 1944
South London Sketch, 1844
SELECTED POEMS (1948)
Indoor Games near Newbury
St. Saviour's, Aberdeen Park, Highbury, London, N.
Beside the Seaside
North Coast Recollections
A Lincolnshire Church
The Town Clerk's Views
A FEW LATE CHRYSANTHEMUMS (1954)
Harrow-on-the Hill
Verses turned
Sunday Morning, King's Cambridge
Christmas
The Licorice Fields at Pontefract
Church of England thoughts
Essex
Huxley Hall
House of Rest
Middlesex
Seaside Golf
I. M. Walter Ramsden, ob. March 26, 1947, Pembroke College, Oxford
Norfolk
The Metropolitan Railway
Late-Flowering Lust
Sun and Fun
Original Sin on the Sussex Coast
Devonshire Street W.1
The Cottage Hospital
A Child Ill
Business Girls
Remorse
The Old Liberals
Greenaway
The Olympic Girl
The Dear Old Village
The Village Inn
Station Syren
Hunter Trials
A Literary Discover
How to Get On in Society
Variation on a Theme by T. W. Rolleston
POEMS IN THE PORCH (1954)
Dairy of a Church Mouse
POEMS WRITTEN AFTER 1954
Wantage Bells
Winthrop Mackworth Redivivus
False Security
Eunice
Monody on the Death of Aldergate Street Station
Thoughts on The Diary of a Nobody
Longfellow's Visit to Venice
Felixstowe, or The Last of Her Order
Pershore Station, or A Liverish Journey First Class
Hertfordshire
Lord Cozens Hardy
Variation on a Theme by Newbolt
Inevitable
N.W.5 & N.6
From the Great Western
In the Public Gardens
HIGH AND LOW (1966)
Preface to High and Low
Cornish Cliffs
Tregardock
By the Ninth Green, St. Enodoc
Winter Seascape
Old Friends
A Bay in Anglesey
A Lament for Moira McCavendish
The Small Towns of Ireland
Ireland's Own
Great Central Railway
Matlock Bath
An Edwardian Sunday, Broomhill, Sheffield
Lines Written to Martyn Skinner
Uffington
Anglo-Catholic Congresses
In Willesden Churchyard
The Commander
Autumn 1964
The Hon. Sec.
Monody on the Death of a Platonist Bank Clerk
Good-bye
Five o'Clock Shadow
A Russell Flint
Perp. Revival i' the North
Agricultural Caress
Narcissus
The Cockney Amorist
Harvest Hymn
Meditation on the A30
Inexpensive Progress
Mortality
Reproof Deserved
Caprice
Cricket Master
A NIP IN THE AIR (1974)
On Leaving Wantage 1972
On a Painting by Julius Olsson R.A.
Beaumaris, December 21, 1963
Hearts Together
Aldershot Crematorium
The Newest Bath Guide
In Memory of George Whitby, Architect
Delectable Duchy
The Costa Blanca
Lenten Thoughts of a High Anglican
Executive
Meditation on a Constable Picture
A Wembley Lad
County
Greek Orthodox
Dilton Marsh Halt
Loneliness
Back from Australia
The Manor House, Hale, near Liverpool
Shattered Image
A Ballad of the Investiture 1969
14 November, 1973
A Mind's Journey to Diss
Fruit
Inland Waterway
For Patrick, aetat: LXX
The Last Laugh
UNCOLLECTED POEMS (1982)
1940
Interior Decorator (London Magazine 1964)
The Lift Man
Archibald
The Retired Postal Clerk
Cheshire
Advertising Pays
Dumbleton Hall
Thoughts in a Train
Shetland 1973
To the Crazy Gang
Kegans
Henley Regatta 1902
1930 Commercial Style
Guilt
A Romance
Advent 1955
The Old Land Dog
Before the Lecture
The Parochial Church Council
The Shires
An Ecumenical Invitation
The Conversion of St. Paul (The Listener 1955)
St. Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street Hill
Woman Driver
The Ballad of George R. Sims (New Statesman 1968)
Civilized Woman
To Stuart Piggot, 1975
Chelsea 1977
ADDITIONAL POEMS
The Friends of the Cathedral (from Poems in the Porch, 1954)
The Empty Pew (1948)
SUMMONED BY BELLS (1960)
I Before MCMXIV
II The Dawn of Guilt
III Highgate
IV Cornwall in Childhood
V Private School
VI London
VII Marlborough
VIII Cornwall in Adolescence
IX The Opening World
Index of First Lines
Index of Places