John Betjeman's unforgettable poems on landscape and suburbia, desire and death, faith and doubt, helped to establish him as the beloved voice of a nation. Yet the ten books of poetry he published individually, later assembled in the Collected Poems, were an incomplete representation of his poetic oeuvre. Many poems published in journals or magazines were excluded from Betjeman's books by him or his editors and a substantial number of finished poems were never printed at all, remaining unknown to readers - until now.
In this exquisite new edition of Betjeman's verse editor Kevin Gardner promises new treasures for 'Betj's' admirers the world over. Betjeman wrote many of these poems in the late 1920s and early 1930s, when he was still developing his unique poetic voice. They reveal a young poet experimenting with both Modernism and post-Romanticism, yet influenced by Shelley and Pope among others. Some of these poems are profoundly psychological, personal and deeply affecting to read today. Several have the delicate and eccentric touch of much of his early poetry and shed new light on his growth as a young poet, while many others reflect the sustained maturity of his later verse. Almost all are typically amusing and highly witty in the style typical of Betjeman; some verge on the bawdy and even, in one instance, point towards homosexuality. These charming and surprising new discoveries, found in archives as far apart as Austin, Texas, and Christ Church, Oxford, will delight poetry lovers and introduce a whole new generation to Betjeman's unforgettable work.
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Descripción Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. In December 1965, Sir John Betjeman wrote to his publisher Jock Murray 'I seem to have lost some of my manuscript poems as yet unpublished, or rather the typescripts of them.' Dr Kevin Gardner has claim to be the foremost contemporary Betjeman scholar and has been and remains assiduous in finding unpublished Betjeman verse. Our former poet laureate remains one of Britains foremost and most loved poets. Who does not know of such lines as Come on ye bombs and fall on Slough, Phone for the fish knives Norman and the celebrated Miss Joan Hunter Dunn- furnish`d and burnishd by Aldershot sun. Having already discovered in the BBC archives a whole collection of poems that Betjeman wrote for broadcast and published by Continuum as Poems in the Porch, here Dr Gardner has made new discoveries in places as distant as Christ Church, Oxford and Waco Texas. These poems which are witty and ooze with charm, will be seized upon by the numerous Betjeman fans worldwide and maybe bring a new generation of readers to his admirers. A charming new collection of previously undiscovered poems by Sir John Betjeman. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9781472966384
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