Collected Poems

Collected Poems

by JohnBetjeman (Author)

Synopsis

Come, friendly bombs, and fall on SloughTo get it ready for the plough.The cabbages are coming now;The earth exhales.--from Slough When the beloved English poet John Betjeman's Collected Poems first appeared in 1958, it made publishing history, and has now sold more than two million copies to a steadily expanding readership. Betjeman is almost unique among poets in that his work appeals equally strongly to those who love poetry and to those who rarely read it. This volume, the first American edition of the Collected Poems, incorporates all the poems that Betjeman published after the original Collected Poems and includes a new foreword by Britain's poet laureate, Andrew Motion.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 417
Edition: New edition
Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd
Published: 26 Oct 2001

ISBN 10: 0719560306
ISBN 13: 9780719560309

Media Reviews
'John Betjeman brings back to poetry a sense of dramatic urgency it had all but lost.' Philip Larkin; 'It would be difficult to point to a contemporary poet of greater originality or more genuine depth of feeling.' Punch
Author Bio
Sir John Betjeman (1906-1984) was one of Britain's most recognized, beloved, and bestselling poets of the last century. He was knighted in 1969 and named Poet Laureate in 1972.