Faith and doubt of John Betjeman : an anthology of Betjeman's religious verse
This collection illustrates the vital role of faith in the formation of this great poet and provides a new perspective on Betjeman's life and beliefs, demonstrating that Betjeman is one of the great poets of the Church in the 20th century
poetry
xxii, 200 pages ; 23 cm
9780826485786, 9780826482723, 0826485782, 0826482724
60838129
N.W.5 & N.6
Calvinistic evensong
Matlock bath
Original sin on the Sussex coast
Norfolk
Narcissus
Archibald
Before the anaesthetic
Goodbye
Fruit
On leaving Wantage 1972
Loneliness
Aldershot crematorium
For nineteenth-century burials
Devonshire Street W.1
Death in Leamington
The cottage hospital
House of rest
Variations on a theme by T. W. Rolleston
Variation on a theme by Newbolt
I. M. Walter Ramsden
Inevitable
Five o'clock shadow
Old friends
On a portrait of a deaf man
Remorse
The last laugh
The commander
Felixstowe
Saint Cadoc
The conversion of St. Paul
Uffington
Wantage bells
Autumn 1964
Churchyards
Lenten thoughts of a High Anglican
Advent 1955
Christmas
In Willesden churchyard
A Lincolnshire church
St. Saviour's Aberdeen Park, Highbury, London, N
Bristol
Holy Trinity, Sloane Street
Sunday morning, King's Cambridge
Verses turned
On hearing the full peal of ten bells
Village wedding
Church of England thoughts
City
Monody on the death of Aldersgate Street Station
Distant view of a provincial town
Septuagesima
Sunday afternoon service in St. Enodoc Church
Hymn
Electric light and heating
The friends of the cathedral
Not necessarily Leeds
St. Barnabas, Oxford
Exchange of livings
Blame the vicar
The Parochial Church Council
Diary of a church mouse
Guilt
Bristol and Clifton
St. Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street Hill
In Westminster Abbey
Lines written to Martyn Skinner
Hertfordshire
Delectable duchy
Cheshire
Harvest hymn
The dear old village
Inexpensive progress
The planster's vision
The town clerk's views
Huxley Hall
Chelsea 1977
Slough
An eighteenth-century Calvinistic hymn
Undenominational
The Sandemanian meeting-house
Greek Orthodox
Anglo-Catholic congresses
An ecumenical invitation
The empty pew
"First published 2005 [hbk.], 2006 [pbk.]"--Title page verso
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