John Betjeman: Reading the Victorians (Revised Second Edition)

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 forebears. This book explores Betjeman's identity through such Victorianism via the verse of the 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 mo...