This first volume of the selected letters of the late Poet Laureate John Betjeman covers his life from university days through to his period on the staff of The Architectural Review, as editor of the Shell Guides in the thirties, as Press Attache in Dublin during the War and as an increasingly popular broadcaster and public speaker in the late fourties. The letters, written both to friends and family and to artists and writers such as T. S. Eliot, Evelyn Waugh and Cyril Connolly record Betjeman's passionate interest in poetry and architecture and his infectious sense of humour.
- ISBN10 0413669408
- ISBN13 9780413669407
- Publish Date 2 October 1995 (first published 25 April 1994)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 November 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Methuen Publishing Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English