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• Collected Poems

  John Betjeman

  
  Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough
  To 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.
  
   

• The Best of John Betjeman (Penguin Modern Classics)

  John Betjeman

  
  
   

• Betjeman's Cornwall

  John Betjeman

  
  
   

• The Illustrated Poems of John Betjeman

  John, Sir Betjeman

  
  
   

• In Praise of Churches

  John Betjeman, Paul Hogarth

  
  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.
  
   

• Church poems

  John Betjeman

  
  
   

• The Best Loved Poems of John Betjeman

  John, Sir Betjeman

  
  
   

• Summoned by Bells

  John, Sir Betjeman

  
  When I returned from school I found we'd moved:
  '53 Church Street. Yes, the slummy end'--
  A little laugh accompanied the joke,
  For we were Chelsea now and we had friends
  Whose friends had friends who knew Augustus John:
  We liked bold colour schemes--orange and black--
  And clever daring plays about divorce.
  --from Chapter 6, "London"
  
  Shortly after it was published in 1960, the modern classic Summoned by Bells was heralded as the verse autobiography of the century. It is a uniquely evocative narrative of the agonies and delights of growing up, set against the backgrounds of Highgate, Cornwall, Marlborough, and Oxford, and recounted in a way that has endeared Betjeman to generations of readers.
  
  
   

• Altar and Pew (Pocket Poets) (Pocket Poets)

  John Betjeman

  
  
   

• Hymns as Poetry

  
  
   

• The Illustrated Summoned by Bells

  John, Sir Betjeman

  
  
   

• John Betjeman Letters

  John Betjeman

  
  
   

• John Betjeman's Collected Poems

  John Betjeman

  
  
   

• Selected Letters

  John Betjeman