Collected Poems - Softcover

Betjeman, Sir John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374126534 ISBN 13: 9780374126537

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374126534
• ISBN 13: 9780374126537
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528