A Nip in the Air: Poems

by John Betjeman

Book Overview

These new poems, most of them written over the last eight or nine years, are as varied and as captivating as ever--more of that inimitable Betjeman counterpoint that makes a new collection an occasion: places, human encounters, meditations, entertaining verbal fisticuffs with "public" hates, threnodies on lost friends, and the pensive regard of familiar vistas that now draw their warmth and color from nearer horizons. The poet Philip Larkin wrote...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393044238
• ISBN13: 9780393044232
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 66 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.2"