Collected Poems, A New and Enlarged Edition (First Edition)

John Betjeman (author); Philip Larkin (introduction)

ISBN 10: 039512705X / ISBN 13: 9780395127056

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1971

About this Item

First edition. First printing. Hardbound. Fine in a fine jacket. Tiny closed tear at head of spine. A clean tight copy. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($7.50). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free.

Seller Inventory # Rear-Poetry-2

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Collected Poems, A New and Enlarged Edition (First Edition)
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston
• Publication Date: 1971
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 039512705X
• ISBN 13: 9780395127056
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough
To get it ready for the plough.
The cabbages are coming now;
The earth exhales.
--from "Slough"

When the beloved English poet John Betjeman's Collected Poems first appeared in 1958, it made publishing history, and has now sold more than two million copies to a steadily expanding readership. Betjeman is almost unique among poets in that his work appeals equally strongly to those who love poetry and to those who rarely read it. This volume, the first American edition of the Collected Poems, incorporates all the poems that Betjeman published after the original Collected Poems and includes a new foreword by Britain's poet laureate, Andrew Motion.

About the Author

Sir John Betjeman (1906-1984) was one of Britain's most recognized, beloved, and bestselling poets of the last century. He was knighted in 1969 and named Poet Laureate in 1972.