Summoned By Bells
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, light chipping around edges. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: previous owner. Binding: Intact.
A celebrated verse autobiography, Summoned by Bells stands as one of John Betjeman's most personal and enduring works, narrating his journey from a Middlesex childhood through his years at Oxford in richly crafted blank verse. The poem chronicles his formative experiences with warmth and gentle irony — his love of architecture, his social anxieties, his passion for the English countryside, and his complicated relationship with his father. Betjeman's voice is nostalgic yet unsentimental, capturing the textures of Edwardian and interwar England with extraordinary vividness and wit. The work illuminates the inner life of one of Britain's most beloved Poets Laureate, revealing how landscape, faith, class, and memory shaped both the man and the poet.
Author: John Betjeman
Format: Hardback
Published: 1960, John Murray
Genre: Poetry
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, light chipping around edges. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: previous owner. Binding: Intact.
A celebrated verse autobiography, Summoned by Bells stands as one of John Betjeman's most personal and enduring works, narrating his journey from a Middlesex childhood through his years at Oxford in richly crafted blank verse. The poem chronicles his formative experiences with warmth and gentle irony — his love of architecture, his social anxieties, his passion for the English countryside, and his complicated relationship with his father. Betjeman's voice is nostalgic yet unsentimental, capturing the textures of Edwardian and interwar England with extraordinary vividness and wit. The work illuminates the inner life of one of Britain's most beloved Poets Laureate, revealing how landscape, faith, class, and memory shaped both the man and the poet.