Betjeman's Britain

This anthology collects John Betjeman's verse and prose about places in Britain: parish churches, Victorian suburbs, seaside towns, railways, and the landscapes of Cornwall, the Home Counties, and beyond. The pieces describe architecture and topography with an eye for threatened buildings, local custom, and the comedy of English taste. Poems sit beside essays and topographical sketches, so that a town may appear first as a lyric and then as a guided walk. It is a place-book rather than a continuous travel narrative: a selection of writings in which particular churches, streets, and stations are the subject.

Bound in maroon buckram blocked with photos. Photo illustrated slipcase.