John Betjeman : new fame, new love
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John Betjeman : new fame, new love
John Murray, 2002
大学図書館所蔵 全1件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This volume deals with Betjeman's zenith years. Now he wins fame not just for his poems but as a tastemaker opening eyes to the Victorian ages, as a battling conservationist and as a television personality, one of the Old Masters of a new medium. The book opens with the Betjemans' stormy married life (their German maid thought John's first name was Shutup). There are chapters on Betjeman as film critic for the Evening Standard ('Do you mind if I say you like English Perpendicular?', he asked Myrna Loy) and as editor of the Shell Guides with John Piper, whose wife Myfanwy - Goldilegs to Betjeman - became one of his enduring muses. When war came he was posted to neutral Ireland as a diplomat - some thought, a spy. An IRA officer was sent to shoot him; luckily Betjeman was on leave at the time. Betjeman's loves and longings are described, as well as the beginning of his close and enduring friendship with Lady Elizabeth Cavendish. The inspirations of favourite poems are discovered.His love of Metroland, or remote churches, dim peers and obscure clergyman poets, his antipathy to business bishops and to Pevsner, the Herr Professor Doktor, together with an enormous range of his friends, including Nancy Mitford, Osbert Lancaster and James Lees-Milne.
Here too are his hitherto unpublished diary entries about W.H. Auden, his skirmishes with Evelyn Waugh over religion and his anguish when his wife became a Roman Catholic. The narrative is crowned by the huge success of his Collected Poems in 1958, a really thrilling moment of triumph.
目次
- Uffington
- film critic
- the diarist
- "that's shell - that was"
- "to Mr and Mrs John Betjeman, a son"
- the pipers
- continual dew and an Oxford University chest
- decoration
- observer corps
- on the air up to 1940
- "Minnie"
- old lights for new chancels
- Ireland
- Daily Herald
- admiralty
- Farnborough
- new bats in old belfries
- British Council
- a Lincolnshire tale
- Oxford Preservation Trust
- on the air 1943-1949
- selected poems
- preservationist's progress up to 1949
- "taime and taide"
- Wantage
- first and last loves
- the Boase Gardens
- a few late chrysanthemums
- cloth fair
- on the air 1950-1958
- the Daily Telegraph
- television personality 1937-1957
- "city and suburban"
- preservationist's progress 1950-1957
- Cincinnati
- "Vic Soc and The Doc"
- "a really thrilling moment of triumph".
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