Collected Poems: A New & Enlarged Edition
By John Betjeman
Houghton Mifflin Company
Boston, Massachusetts
1971
Compiled by The Earl of Birkenhead. Introduction by Philip Larken. xli, [3], 366 p.; 19 cm. (7.5 inches). Light green cloth, with gilt-stamped on dark green-stamped spine and front-cover titles. Color dust jacket. Top page edges green. Book Club Edition
"John Betjeman's Collected Poems, when originally published in England and the United States, consolidated dramatically a reputation that had consistently grown. Since then he has published two more volumes of poetry, Summoned by Bells, a verse autobiography, which remains a separate volume, and High and Low, a collection of lyrics which is now included in this enlarged edition. . . . His collected work reveals something not always immediately apparent in his individual poems - that he has no need to be obscure about cryptic personal experiences, for his response to the sensations of contemporary life, where he finds it, gives him something to say, and in saying it he transmutes its contemporary idiom by real poetic magic" [from the dust jacket]. ISBN: 039512705X
Book is in Fine/As New Condition: pages bright, clean, tight, and unmarked. Dust Jacket is in Very Good Plus Condition: small closed tear top edge of the back section; light shelf wear. Nice copy!
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