John Betjeman Reading the Victorians 1st Edition by Greg Morse 1845195345 978-1845195342

John Betjeman Reading the Victorians 1st Edition Greg Morse – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(S): 1845195345, 978-1845195342

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• ISBN 10:1845195345
• ISBN 13: 978-1845195342
• Author:  Greg Morse

John Betjeman was undoubtedly the most popular Poet Laureate since Tennyson. But beneath the thoroughly modern window on Britain that he opened during his lifetime lay the influence of his nineteenth-century forbears. This book explores his identity through such Victorianism via the verse of that period, but also its architecture, religious faith and — more importantly — religious doubt. It was, nevertheless, a process which took time. In the 1930s Betjeman’s work was tinted with modernism and traditionalism. He found Victorian buildings ‘funny’ and wrote much in praise of the Bauhaus style, even though his early poetry was peppered with Victorian references. This leaning was incorporated into a greater sense of purpose during World War 2, when he transformed himself from precious humorist into propagandist. The resulting sense of cohesion grew when the dangers of post-war urban redevelopment heightened the need to critique the present via the poetics of the past, a mood which continued up to and beyond his gaining the Laureateship in 1972.

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