Best Loved Poems of John Betjeman by John Betjeman


Best Loved Poems of John Betjeman
Title : Best Loved Poems of John Betjeman
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ISBN : 071956834X
ISBN-10 : 9780719568343
Language : English
Format Type : Hardcover
Number of Pages : -
Publication : First published June 5, 2006

Betjeman, John. The Best Loved Poems. London, John Murray, 2006. 13cm x 20cm. 99 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Includes for example the following Foreword by Barry Humphries / A Subaltern's Love-song / Death in Leamington / Slough / Longfellow's Vist to Venice / Devonshire St W. 1 / A Shropshire Lad

Best Loved Poems of John Betjeman Reviews

  • Richard Crookes

    Brilliant, witty, musical, memorable, accessible, sexy, - above all human... what more do you want?

  • Caoimhín

    I've always found it harder to get into poems which constantly reference historical figures, geographical locations, towns or street names that I'm not connected to. I appreciate the sense of rhythm in some of the poems but I never felt enthralled by them.

  • Victoria

    Not my favourite poetry collection but it had a few poems I enjoyed. It's very hit or miss with me and male poets.

    My favourite poems in this collection:
    - In A Bath Teashop
    - The Licorice Fields at Pontefract
    - Late-Flowering Lust
    - A Russell Flint

  • Shelby Bollen

    None of Betjeman's poems really appealed to me and I didn't come away with any favourites. I enjoyed reading this collection but it isn't one that I would come back to.

  • Shreya

    An easy to read yet thought provoking passage back into the realm of poetry. It's been a long time since I read verse for pleasure but this was really that, for pleasure. I imagine it must be difficult for someone not familiar with the atmosphere in different parts of Britain but we are better off for the specific nostalgia these poems evoke!
    The rest of this is not a review but my lovely bookmark notes
    Subaltern's love song, Bristol, Arrest of Oscar Wilde... , Westgate On Sea, How to Get On in Society, Slough, Trebetherick, Archibald, Cockney Amorist (write chords for this one!), Shropshire Lad, Business Girls, Upper Lambourne, Senex, Planster's Vision, In a Bath Teashop, On a Portrait of a Deaf Man, Indoor games near Newbury (3), St Saviour's ... (Highbury), NW5 + N6, Middlesex, Norfolk, Original Sin on Sussex Coast (!), A Russell Flint, Caprice, Hearts Together ...
    et fini