Collected Poems,9780374126537

Collected Poems

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ISBN13: 9780374126537
ISBN10: 0374126534
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Pub. Date: 2006-11-28
Publisher(s): Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Summary

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'sCollected Poemsfirst 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 theCollected Poems,incorporates all the poems that Betjeman published after the originalCollected Poemsand includes a new foreword by Britain's poet laureate, Andrew Motion.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction xv
Andrew Motion
MOUNT ZION (1932)
Death in Leamington
1(2)
Hymn
3(2)
The `Varsity Students' Rag
5(2)
The City
7(1)
An Eighteenth-Century Calvinistic Hymn
8(1)
For Nineteenth-Century Burials
9(1)
Camberley
10(1)
Croydon
11(1)
Westgate-on-Sea
12(2)
The Wykehamist
14(1)
The Sandemanian Meeting-House in Highbury Quadrant
15(1)
CONTINUAL DEW (1937)
The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel
16(2)
Distant View of a Provincial Town
18(2)
Slough
20(2)
Clash went the Billiard Balls
22(1)
Love in a Valley
23(1)
An Impoverished Irish Peer
24(2)
Our Padre
26(1)
Exchange of Livings
27(1)
Undenominational
28(1)
City
29(1)
A Hike on the Downs
30(1)
Dorset
31(1)
Calvinistic Evensong
32(1)
Exeter
33(2)
Death of King George V
35(1)
The Heart of Thomas Hardy
36(1)
Suicide on Junction Road Station after Abstention from Evening Communion in North London
37(1)
The Flight from Bootle
38(1)
Public House Drunk
39(2)
OLD LIGHTS FOR NEW CHANCELS (1940)
Cheltenham
41(1)
A Shropshire Lad
42(2)
Upper Lambourne
44(1)
Pot Pourri from a Surrey Garden
45(2)
Holy Trinity, Sloane Street
47(1)
On Seeing an Old Poet in the Cafe Royal
48(1)
An Incident in the Early Life of Ebenezer Jones, Poet, 1828
49(3)
Trebetherick
52(2)
Oxford: Sudden Illness at the Bus-stop
54(1)
Group Life: Letchworth
55(1)
Bristol and Clifton
56(3)
Sir John Piers
59(10)
Myfanwy
69(2)
Myfanwy at Oxford
71(2)
Lake District
73(1)
In Westminster Abbey
74(2)
Senex
76(2)
Olney Hymns
78(1)
On a Portrait of a Deaf Man
79(2)
Saint Cadoc
81(2)
Blackfriars
83(1)
NEW BATS IN OLD BELFRIES (1945)
Henley-on-Thames
84(1)
Parliament Hill Fields
85(2)
A Subaltern's Love-song
87(2)
Bristol
89(1)
On an Old-Fashioned Water-Colour of Oxford
90(1)
A Lincolnshire Tale
91(3)
St. Barnabas, Oxford
94(1)
An Archaeological Picnic
95(1)
May-Day Song for North Oxford
96(1)
Before Invasion, 1940
97(1)
Ireland with Emily
98(2)
Margate, 1940
100(2)
Invasion Exercise on the Poultry Farm
102(2)
The Planster's Vision
104(1)
In a Bath Teashop
105(1)
Before the Anaesthetic, or A Real Fright
106(3)
On Hearing the Full Peal of Ten Bells from Christ Church, Swindon, Wilts
109(1)
Youth and Age on Beaulieu River, Hants
110(2)
East Anglian Bathe
112(1)
Sunday Afternoon Service in St. Enodoc Church, Cornwall
113(5)
The Irish Unionist's Farewell to Greta Hellstrom in 1922
118(2)
In Memory of Basil, Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
120(2)
South London Sketch, 1944
122(1)
South London Sketch, 1844
123(1)
SELECTED POEMS (1948)
Indoor Games near Newbury
124(2)
St. Saviour's, Aberdeen Park, Highbury, London, N.
126(2)
Beside the Seaside
128(7)
North Coast Recollections
135(9)
A Lincolnshire Church
144(1)
The Town Clerk's Views
144(4)
A FEW LATE CHRYSANTHEMUMS (1954)
Harrow-on-the-Hill
148(1)
Verses turned
149(3)
Sunday Morning, King's Cambridge
152(3)
Christmas
155(1)
The Licorice Fields at Pontefract
156(1)
Church of England thoughts
156(2)
Essex
158(2)
Huxley Hall
160(1)
House of Rest
161(2)
Middlesex
163(2)
Seaside Golf
165(1)
I. M. Walter Ramsden, ob. March 26, 1947, Pembroke College, Oxford
166(2)
Norfolk
168(1)
The Metropolitan Railway
169(2)
Late-Flowering Lust
171(2)
Sun and Fun
173(2)
Original Sin on the Sussex Coast
175(2)
Devonshire Street W.1
177(1)
The Cottage Hospital
178(2)
A Child Ill
180(1)
Business Girls
181(1)
Remorse
182(1)
The Old Liberals
183(1)
Greenaway
184(2)
The Olympic Girl
186(1)
The Dear Old Village
187(5)
The Village Inn
192(3)
Station Syren
195(2)
Hunter Trials
197(2)
A Literary Discovery
199(4)
How to Get On in Society
203(1)
Variation on a Theme by T. W. Rolleston
204(1)
POEMS IN THE PORCH (1954)
Diary of a Church Mouse
205(3)
POEMS WRITTEN AFTER 1954
Wantage Bells
208(1)
Winthrop Mackworth Redivivus
209(3)
False Security
212(2)
Eunice
214(2)
Monody on the Death of Aldersgate Street Station
216(2)
Thoughts on The Diary of a Nobody
218(2)
Long fellow's Visit to Venice
220(2)
Felixstowe, or The Last of Her Order
222(2)
Pershore Station, or A Liverish Journey First Class
224(1)
Hertfordshire
225(2)
Lord Cozens Hardy
227(2)
Variation on a Theme by Newbolt
229(1)
Inevitable
230(1)
N.W.5 & N.6
231(2)
From the Great Western
233(1)
In the Public Gardens
234(1)
HIGH AND LOW (1966)
Preface to High and Low
235(2)
Cornish Cliffs
237(2)
Tregardock
239(2)
By the Ninth Green, St. Enodoc
241(2)
Winter Seascape
243(2)
Old Friends
245(2)
A Bay in Anglesey
247(2)
A Lament for Moira McCavendish
249(2)
The Small Towns of Ireland
251(3)
Ireland's Own
254(2)
Great Central Railway
256(2)
Matlock Bath
258(2)
An Edwardian Sunday, Broomhill, Sheffield
260(2)
Lines written to Martyn Skinner
262(2)
Uffington
264(1)
Anglo-Catholic Congresses
265(1)
In Willesden Churchyard
266(2)
The Commander
268(2)
Autumn 1964
270(1)
The Hon. Sec.
271(2)
Monody on the Death of a Platonist Bank Clerk
273(2)
Good-bye
275(1)
Five o'Clock Shadow
276(1)
A Russell Flint
277(1)
Perp. Revival i' the North
278(1)
Agricultural Caress
279(1)
Narcissus
280(2)
The Cockney Amorist
282(2)
Harvest Hymn
284(1)
Meditation on the A30
285(1)
Inexpensive Progress
286(2)
Mortality
288(1)
Reproof Deserved
289(2)
Caprice
291(1)
Cricket Master
292(4)
A NIP IN THE AIR (1974)
On Leaving Wantage 1972
296(2)
On a Painting by Julius Olsson R.A.
298(1)
Beaumaris, December 21, 1963
299(2)
Hearts Together
301(1)
Aldershot Crematorium
302(1)
The Newest Bath Guide
303(2)
In Memory of George Whitby, Architect
305(1)
Delectable Duchy
306(2)
The Costa Blanca
308(2)
Lenten Thoughts of a High Anglican
310(2)
Executive
312(2)
Meditation on a Constable Picture
314(1)
A Wembley Lad
315(1)
County
316(3)
Greek Orthodox
319(2)
Dilton Marsh Halt
321(1)
Loneliness
322(1)
Back from Australia
323(1)
The Manor House, Hale, near Liverpool
324(2)
Shattered Image
326(6)
A Ballad of the Investiture 1969
332(3)
14 November, 1973
335(1)
A Mind's Journey to Diss
336(1)
Fruit
337(1)
Inland Waterway
338(1)
For Patrick, aetat: LXX
339(2)
The Last Laugh
341(1)
UNCOLLECTED POEMS (1982)
1940
342(2)
Interior Decorator (London Magazine 1964)
344(3)
The Lift Man
347(2)
Archibald
349(2)
The Retired Postal Clerk
351(1)
Cheshire
352(1)
Advertising Pays
353(2)
Dumbleton Hall
355(2)
Thoughts in a Train
357(1)
Shetland 1973
358(1)
To the Crazy Gang
359(2)
Kegans
361(1)
Henley Regatta 1902
362(1)
1930 Commercial Style
363(2)
Guilt
365(1)
A Romance
366(3)
Advent 1955
369(2)
The Old Land Dog
371(2)
Before the Lecture
373(2)
The Parochial Church Council
375(4)
The Shires
379(1)
An Ecumenical Invitation
380(2)
The Conversion of St. Paul (The Listener 1955)
382(3)
St. Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street Hill
385(1)
Woman Driver
386(1)
The Ballad of George R. Sims (New Statesman 1968)
387(2)
Civilized Woman
389(1)
To Stuart Piggott, 1975
390(2)
Chelsea 1977
392(1)
ADDITIONAL POEMS
The Friends of the Cathedral (from Poems in the Porch, 1954)
393(2)
The Empty Pew (1948)
395(88)
SUMMONED BY BELLS (1960)
Before MCMXIV
399(4)
The Dawn of Guilt
403(10)
Highgate
413(5)
Cornwall in Childhood
418(8)
Private School
426(8)
London
434(6)
Marlborough
440(10)
Cornwall in Adolescence
450(11)
The Opening World
461(22)
Index of First Lines 483(8)
Index of Places 491

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