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It could only happen in England BY PHILIP LARKIN A study of John Betjeman's poems for American readers ? T The quickest way to start a punch - up between two British literary critics is to ask them what they think of the poems of Sir ...
It could only happen in England BY PHILIP LARKIN A study of John Betjeman's poems for American readers ? T The quickest way to start a punch - up between two British literary critics is to ask them what they think of the poems of Sir ...
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For Betjeman's poems , forthright , comprehensible , and couched in the marked button - holing rhythms of Praed or Tennnyson ... Energy most contemporary poets put into screening their impulses for security Betjeman puts into the poem .
For Betjeman's poems , forthright , comprehensible , and couched in the marked button - holing rhythms of Praed or Tennnyson ... Energy most contemporary poets put into screening their impulses for security Betjeman puts into the poem .
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Betjeman is a true heir of Thomas Hardy , who found clouds , mists and mountains ' unimportant beside the wear on a threshold , or the print of a hand ' : his poems are about the threshold , but it and they would be nothing without the ...
Betjeman is a true heir of Thomas Hardy , who found clouds , mists and mountains ' unimportant beside the wear on a threshold , or the print of a hand ' : his poems are about the threshold , but it and they would be nothing without the ...
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| Title | The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 179 |
| Editor | William Makepeace Thackeray |
| Contributor | George Smith |
| Publisher | Smith, Elder and Company, 1971 |
| Original from | UC Southern Regional Library Facility |
| Digitized | 11 May 2018 |
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