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Sir John Betjeman, CBE (/ ˈ b ɛ tʃ ə m ən /; 28 August 1906 – 19 May 1984) was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster. He was Poet Laureate from 1972 until his death. He was a founding member of The Victorian Society and a passionate defender of Victorian architecture , helping to save St Pancras railway station from demolition.
John Betjeman ( Highgate, 28 agosto 1906 – Trebetherick, 19 maggio 1984) è stato un poeta britannico . Betjeman utilizzò schemi poetici come le ballate del XIX secolo, modernizzandole e aggiungendovi una considerevole componente melodica . È inoltre uno dei fondatori della Victorian Society .
14 gen 2016 · Sir John Betjeman (1906-1984) was UK Poet Laureate from 1972 until his death, and became one of Britain’s best-loved poets of the twentieth century. When his Collected Poems was published in 1955, it was a bestseller. Below is our selection of Betjeman’s best poems, along with a short summary of each poem and a link to where you ...
Betjeman, John nell'Enciclopedia Treccani - Treccani - Treccani. Poeta inglese (n. 1906 - m. Treen, Cornovaglia, 1984). Valendosi di ritmi e schemi metrici spesso assunti dalla tradizione (in genere le ballate sentimentali dell'Ottocento), la poesia di B. conferisce a una tematica moderna e disincantata una suggestione melodica che ne ...
John Betjeman, poet laureate of the United Kingdom from 1972 until his death in 1984, was known by many as a poet whose writing evoked a sense of nostalgia. He utilized traditional poetic forms, wrote with a light touch about public issues, celebrated classic architecture, and satirized much of…
15 mag 2024 · John Betjeman (born August 28, 1906, London, England—died May 19, 1984, Trebetherick, Cornwall) was a British poet known for his nostalgia for the near past, his exact sense of place, and his precise rendering of social nuance, which made him widely read in England at a time when much of what he wrote about was rapidly vanishing.
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Works of John Betjeman. Betjeman in 1961. Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984) was a twentieth-century English poet, writer and broadcaster. Born to a middle-class family in Edwardian Hampstead, he attended Oxford University, although left without graduating. [1]
