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Hillier's enthralling, many-voiced biography is an awesome achievement. But it is no more than Betjeman's due (John Carey, Sunday Times)
Not the least of Betjamin's achievements was to secure Bevis Hillier as his biographer...a monumental study (Times Literary Supplement)
A triumph (Spectator)
An awe-inspiring piece of scholarship, presented with touching warmth and affection ... Betjeman has had the best and most sympathetic biographer he could have wished for (Artemis Cooper, Evening Standard)
Betjeman's place is not just in literature. As Hillier's detailed, often hilarious, and very poignant Ordnance Survey map suggest, Betjeman is also significant in the history of English society and taste, a 20th century addition to that very special gallery which includes Dr Johnson, Horace Walpole and Oscar Wilde (Duncan Fallowell, The Express)
Fascinating (Humphrey Carpenter, Sunday Times)
Hillier's monumental approach to biography would be justified, because he paints not just an individual but a species ... Hillier's enthralling, many-voiced biography, the fruit of 28 years' research and inquiry, is an awesome achievement. But it is no more than Betjeman's due. (John Carey, Sunday Times)
Strikes just the right note. (Telegraph)
It is part of Mr Hillier's achievement that, while laying bare so many of Betjeman's foibles ... one still thinks of him as a great man. (Country Life)
A mosaic in which the true face of the man and his time is revealed (Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday)
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Not the least of Betjamin's achievements was to secure Bevis Hillier as his biographer...a monumental study (Times Literary Supplement)
A triumph (Spectator)
An awe-inspiring piece of scholarship, presented with touching warmth and affection ... Betjeman has had the best and most sympathetic biographer he could have wished for (Artemis Cooper, Evening Standard)
Betjeman's place is not just in literature. As Hillier's detailed, often hilarious, and very poignant Ordnance Survey map suggest, Betjeman is also significant in the history of English society and taste, a 20th century addition to that very special gallery which includes Dr Johnson, Horace Walpole and Oscar Wilde (Duncan Fallowell, The Express)
Fascinating (Humphrey Carpenter, Sunday Times)
Hillier's monumental approach to biography would be justified, because he paints not just an individual but a species ... Hillier's enthralling, many-voiced biography, the fruit of 28 years' research and inquiry, is an awesome achievement. But it is no more than Betjeman's due. (John Carey, Sunday Times)
Strikes just the right note. (Telegraph)
It is part of Mr Hillier's achievement that, while laying bare so many of Betjeman's foibles ... one still thinks of him as a great man. (Country Life)
A mosaic in which the true face of the man and his time is revealed (Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday)
The final, fascinating volume of Bevis Hillier's biography of Betjeman. An intimate portrait of the extraordinary life of Britain's best-loved poet.
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- PublisherJohn Murray
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0719564956
- ISBN 13 9780719564956
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages768
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