John Betjeman : reading the Victorians / Greg Morse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morse, Greg, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Betjeman, John, 1906-1984--Criticism and interpretation.

Betjeman, John.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Eastbourne : Sussex Academic Press, [2021]

Summary:

John Betjeman was the popular Poet Laureate since Tennyson. But beneath the 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 religious doubt.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright

Contents

Foreword by Norman Vance

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations (and Textual Note

1. Introduction

Teddy Bear to the Nation

A Question of Upbringing

Betjeman Today

2. The 1930s

The Opening World

Chapel and Spa

Bourgeois Verses

Architectural Revue

Onward and Upward

3. The 1940s

Home Fires

Ireland

Flag Stones

A Poet For All?

4. The 1950s

Love is Dead

Over-work and Under Pressure

Church Matters

Campaign and Caveats

A Star is Born

5. The 1960s and 70s

The Euston Murder

Live in Metroland

TV Personality

Past and Present

Faith and Doubt

Knight Bachelor

6. The 1970s and 80s

Royal Rhymester?

Battling with Bulldozers

Autumn Chill

Belief . . . and Unbelief

Jubilee Jingle

Coda

7. Summoned by Bells

Changing Horizons

The Epic

The Journey Begins

8. Conclusion

The Identity of Betjeman

Appendix: Glossary of nineteenth-century poets listed by Betjeman in the preface to Old Lights for New Chancels(1940)

Notes

Bibliography

Betjeman Filmography and Audiography

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781782847847

1782847847

9781782847335

1782847332

OCLC:

1243539509