John Betjeman- John Betjeman: 35 Favourite Poems
In a 1962 radio interview he told teenage questioners that he could not write about 'abstract things', preferring places and faces. Philip Larkin wrote of Betjeman's work, "how much more interesting & worth writing about (his) subjects are than most other modern poets, I mean, whether so-and-so achieves some metaphysical inner unity is not really so interesting as the overbuilding of rural Middlesex.
Tracklist:
- False Security
- Hunter Trials
- Seaside Golf
- Norfolk
- Sunday In Ireland
- Remorse
- Youth And Age On Beaulieu River
- A Subaltern’s Love Song
- Reproof Deserved (After The Lecture)
- Business Women
- Song Of A Night-Club Proprietress (‘sun & Fun’)
- The Licorice Fields At Pontefract
- Our Padre
- Indoor Games Near Newbury
- How To Get On In Society
- Late Flowering Lust
- Middlesex
- Harrow-On-The-Hill
- Trebetherick
- The Arrest Of Oscar Wilde
- In Memoriam Walter Ramsden
- Devonshire Street, W.1
- In A Bath Teashop
- The Irish Unionist’s Farewell
- A Lincolnshire Church
- Henley-On-Thames
- Diary Of A Church Mouse
- In The Public Gardens
- Eunice
- The Last Of Her Order (Aka ‘felixstowe’)
- Matlock Bath
- Introduction - To My Son Aged Eight
- On A Portrait Of A Deaf Man
- Death At Leamington
- Christmas
UPC > 5055354419706
Format > New CD
Label > Alto
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In a 1962 radio interview he told teenage questioners that he could not write about 'abstract things', preferring places and faces. Philip Larkin wrote of Betjeman's work, "how much more interesting & worth writing about (his) subjects are than most other modern poets, I mean, whether so-and-so achieves some metaphysical inner unity is not really so interesting as the overbuilding of rural Middlesex.
Tracklist:
- False Security
- Hunter Trials
- Seaside Golf
- Norfolk
- Sunday In Ireland
- Remorse
- Youth And Age On Beaulieu River
- A Subaltern’s Love Song
- Reproof Deserved (After The Lecture)
- Business Women
- Song Of A Night-Club Proprietress (‘sun & Fun’)
- The Licorice Fields At Pontefract
- Our Padre
- Indoor Games Near Newbury
- How To Get On In Society
- Late Flowering Lust
- Middlesex
- Harrow-On-The-Hill
- Trebetherick
- The Arrest Of Oscar Wilde
- In Memoriam Walter Ramsden
- Devonshire Street, W.1
- In A Bath Teashop
- The Irish Unionist’s Farewell
- A Lincolnshire Church
- Henley-On-Thames
- Diary Of A Church Mouse
- In The Public Gardens
- Eunice
- The Last Of Her Order (Aka ‘felixstowe’)
- Matlock Bath
- Introduction - To My Son Aged Eight
- On A Portrait Of A Deaf Man
- Death At Leamington
- Christmas
UPC > 5055354419706
Format > New CD
Label > Alto
Shop online at Darkside Records.
Follow us on Instagram.