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Collected Poems - Paperback

by John Betjeman
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Availability:In StockContributor:John Betjeman, Andrew Motion (Introduction by)Publish date:2006-11-28Pages:528
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374126537ISBN-10:374126534UPC:9780374126537Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:7.40 x 5.50 x 0.92 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SC7RA1B3M5

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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374126537ISBN-10:374126534UPC:9780374126537Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:7.40 x 5.50 x 0.92 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SC7RA1B3M5

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.


Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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John Betjeman, Andrew Motion (Introduction by)

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John Betjeman

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