John Betjeman: 35 Favourite Poems

Artista: Betjeman, John

Formato: COMPACT DISCS

Gravadora/Label: AOTL

Catalogo: 1970

Faixas: 1.1 False Security
1.2 Hunter Trials
1.3 Seaside Golf
1.4 Norfolk
1.5 Sunday in Ireland
1.6 Remorse
1.7 Youth and Age on Beaulieu River
1.8 A Subaltern’s Love Song
1.9 Reproof Deserved (After the Lecture)
1.10 Business Women
1.11 Song of a Night-Club Proprietress (Aka ‘Sun ; Fun’)
1.12 The Licorice Fields at Pontefract
1.13 Our Padre
1.14 Indoor Games Near Newbury
1.15 How to Get on in Society
1.16 Late Flowering Lust
1.17 Middlesex
1.18 Harrow-On-The-Hill
1.19 Trebetherick
1.20 The Arrest of Oscar Wilde
1.21 In Memoriam Walter Ramsden
1.22 Devonshire Street, W.1
1.23 In a Bath Teashop
1.24 To My Son Aged Eight
1.25 On a Portrait of a Deaf Man
1.26 Death at Leamington Read
1.27 Christmas

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.