In Praise of Churches - Softcover

Betjeman, John, Sir

 
9780719555626: In Praise of Churches
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0719555620 ISBN 13: 9780719555626
Verlag: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

John Betjeman's delightful evocation in verse and prose, of the church and church life, is gracefully rendered in 80 watercolor paintings. No one has captured as completely that intimate world, with its clergy, congregation, architecture, and ritual, than the late poet laureate.

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John Betjeman was born in London on 28 August 1906. He was educated at Marlborough and Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1931 his first book of poems, 'Mount Zion', was published by an old Oxford friend, Edward James. His second book was 'Ghastly Good Taste', a commentary on architecture, published in 1934. He was knighted in 1969 and was appointed Poet Laureate in 1972. John Betjeman died on 19 May 1984 at his home in Trebetherick, Cornwall and was buried at the nearby church of St Enodoc.

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Verlag
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0719555620
ISBN 13 
9780719555626
Einband
Taschenbuch
Zeichner
Hogarth Paul
Anzahl der Seiten
138
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