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JOHN BETJEMAN: SELECTED POEMS

by John Betjeman; Alan Powers

Illustrated by Peter Bailey

Published by Folio Society. Circa. 2004

Nearly fine condition. Edited by Alan Powers. Pictorial paper boards, black titles with yellow highlighting. Blue endpapers with b/w illustration to centre. B/w and colour illustrations. xiv and 222 pages including index.

Still in original shrinkwrap, hence Circa 2004.

Stock no. 1830352

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Contents

  • Asterisks indicate poems first published in successive editions of John Betjemans' Collected Poems from 1958 onwards. They have been positioned according to their period of composition.
  • Introduction
  • From Mount Zion (1932)
  • Death in Leamington
  • The 'Varsity Student's Rag
  • For Nineteenth Century Burials
  • Croydon
  • Westgate-on-Sea
  • The Wykehamist
  • The Sandemanian Meeting House in Highbury Quadrant
  • From Continued Dew (1937)
  • The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel
  • Slough
  • Love in a Valley
  • An Impoverished Irish Peer
  • City
  • Dorset
  • Exeter
  • The Death of King George V
  • The Heart of Thomas Hardy*
  • Suicide on Junction Road Station after Abstention from Evening Communion in North London
  • The Flight from Bootle
  • From Old Lights for New Chancels (1940)
  • A Shropshire Lad
  • Upper Lambourne
  • Pot Pourri from a Surrey Garden
  • Holy Trinity Sloane Street
  • On Seeing an Old Poet in the Cafe Royal
  • Trebetherick
  • Oxford: Sudden Illness at the Bus Stop
  • Sir John Piers
  • Myfanwy
  • Myfanwy at Oxford
  • Senex
  • Olney Hymns
  • On a Portrait of a Deaf Man
  • Saint Cadoc
  • Blackfriards
  • From New Bats in the Old Belfries (1945)
  • Henley-on-Thames
  • Parliament Hill Fields
  • A Subaltern's Love-Song
  • Bristol
  • A Lincolnshire Tale
  • An Archaeologial Picnic
  • May-Day Song for North Oxford
  • Before Invasion, 1940
  • Ireland with Emily
  • Margate 1940
  • Invasion Exercise on the Poultry Farm
  • In a bath Teashop
  • Before the Anaesthetic, or a Real Fright
  • Youth and Age on Beaulieu River, Hants
  • The Irish Unionists Farewell to Greta Hellstrom in 1922
  • In Memory of Basil, Maquess of Dufferin and Ava
  • South London Sketch 1944
  • South London Sketch 1844
  • From Selected Poems (1948)
  • Indoor Games near Newbury
  • St Saviour's Aberdeen Park, Highbury London, N
  • North Coast Recollections
  • The Town Clerk's Views *
  • From a Few Late Chrysanthemums (1954)
  • Harrow-on-the-Hill
  • Sunday Morning, Kings Cambridge
  • The Licorice Fields at Pontefract
  • Essex
  • House of Rest
  • Middlesex
  • Seaside Gold
  • IM Walter Ramsden, ob March 26, 1947 Pembroke College Oxford
  • Late-Flowering Lust
  • Sun and Fun
  • Degvonshire Street, W1
  • Business Girls
  • The Cottage Hospital
  • Remorse
  • The Old Liberals
  • The Village Inn
  • Station Syren
  • Hunter Trials
  • How to get on in Society
  • From Poems in the Porch (1954)
  • Diary of a church mouse
  • Poems Written after 1954
  • Winthrop Mackworth Redivivus
  • Falst Security
  • Eunice
  • Thoughts on the Diary of a Nobody
  • Pershore Station
  • Lord Cozens Hardy
  • Variation on a Theme by Newbolt
  • Inevitable
  • NW5 & N6
  • From High and Low (1966)
  • Preface to High and Low
  • Tregardock
  • Winter Seascape
  • Old Friends
  • Uffington
  • The Small Towns of Ireland
  • Ireland's Ownor the Burial of Thomas Moore
  • Anglo-CatholCongresses
  • In Wiesden Churchyard
  • Autumn 1964
  • Monody on the Death of a Platonic Bank Clerk
  • Five o'clock Shadow
  • A Russell Flint
  • Perp, Revival i' the North
  • Agricultural Caress
  • Narcissue
  • The Cockney Amorist
  • Harvest Hymn
  • Inexpensive Progress
  • Mortality
  • Reproof Deserved, or after the Lecture
  • Cricket Master
  • From a Nip in the Air (1974)
  • On Leaving Wantage 1972
  • Alderhot Crematorium
  • The Newest Bath Guide
  • Hearts Together
  • In Memory of George Whitby, Architect
  • The Costa Blanca
  • Executive
  • Lenten Thoughts of a High Anglican
  • Meditation on a Constable Picture
  • County
  • Greek Orthodox
  • Dilton Marsh Halt
  • Loneliness
  • Back from Australia
  • Shattered Image
  • Fruit
  • Inalnd Waterway
  • For Patrick,
  • The Last Laugh
  • Notes

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