John Betjeman

Informationen zum Autor Poet and architectural critic, Sir John Betjeman was born in North London in 1906. He was taught by T S Eliot at Highgate Junior School and was rusticated from Magdalen College Oxford for failing Divinity. He published several poetry collections, including New Bats in Old Belfries and A Few Late Chrysanthemums , and several works on architecture. His Collected Poems was published in 1958 and the first edition sold over 100,000 copies. He was knighted in 1969 and appointed Poet Laureate in 1972. He died in Cornwall in 1984. Hugo Williams was born in 1942 and grew up in Sussex. He worked on the London Magazine from 1961 to 1970, since when he has earned his living as a journalist and travel writer. Billy's Rain won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 1999. His Collected Poems was published by Faber in 2002 and his last collection, I Knew the Bride , was published in 2014 and shortlisted for the Forward and T. S. Eliot prizes. In 2004 he received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Klappentext In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. Zusammenfassung In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past.

Product details

• Authors: John Betjeman, Sir John Betjeman, Hugo Williams
• Assisted by: Hugo Williams (Editor), Hugo (poetry ed Spectator) Williams (Editor)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.03.2006
• EAN: 9780571230990
• ISBN: 978-0-571-23099-0
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 120 mm x 198 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Poet to Poet; Poet to Poet
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; POETRY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Poetry by individual poets, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Poet to Poet; Poetry Classics, Literary studies: poetry and poets