Tennis Whites and Teacakes

Informationen zum Autor John Betjeman was born in 1906 and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford. His gave his first radio talk in 1932; future appearances made him into a national celebrity. He was knighted in 1969 and became poet laureate in 1972. He died in 1984. Stephen Games writes about in architecture and language. He was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, made documentaries for BBC Radio 3 and has worked for the Independent, the Guardian, the Los Angeles Times, and was deputy editor of the RIBA Journal. In 2002, he edited the radio talks of Nikolaus Pevsner. Klappentext The real England, the real John Betjeman "Informative and entertaining." --"Scotsman", on "Trains and Buttered Toast" Vorwort The real England, the real John Betjeman Zusammenfassung The real England, the real John Betjeman

Product details

• Authors: John Betjeman, Mr. Stephen Games, Stephen Games
• Assisted by: Mr. Stephen Games (Editor), Stephen Games (Editor)
• Publisher: John Murray
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 12.06.2008
• EAN: 9780719569043
• ISBN: 978-0-7195-6904-3
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 36 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Diaries, letters & journals, Diaries, letters and journals, Poetry / poems by individual poets