John Betjeman: Reading the Victorians

by Greg Morse

Book Overview

John Betjeman was undoubtedly the most popular Poet Laureate since Tennyson. But beneath the thoroughly modern window on Britain that he opened during his lifetime lay the influence of his nineteenth-century forbears. This book explores his identity through such Victorianism via the verse of that period, but also its architecture, religious faith and -- more importantly -- religious doubt. It was, nevertheless, a process which took time. In the 1930s...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845195345
• ISBN13: 9781845195342
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"