Ghastly Good Taste - Or, a Depressing Story of the Rise and Fall of English Architecture

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. Zusammenfassung The older anything was the lovelier I thought it.'Most famous for his poetry, John Betjeman was also passionate about architecture, 'preferring all centuries to my own'.

Product details

• Authors: John Betjeman, Sir John Betjeman
• Assisted by: Joh Betjeman (Editor), John Betjeman (Editor)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.09.2008
• EAN: 9780571245680
• ISBN: 978-0-571-24568-0
• No. of pages: 136
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 216 mm x 11 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; England, ARCHITECTURE / Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation, Architectural structure and design, Architecture; Design; Faber Finds; Heritage; Modernism