Collected poems / John Betjeman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Betjeman, John, 1906-1984

Language:

English

Physical Description:

xxiv, 498 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

"Originally published in 1958 by John Murray (Publishers) ... Great Britain"--T.p. verso.

Includes indexes.

Includes the author's verse autobiography Summoned by bells.

Contains:

Betjeman, John, 1906-1984. Summoned by bells.

ISBN:

0374126534

9780374126537

OCLC:

69671847

Publisher Number:

9780374126537

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