Summoned by Bells

John Betjeman

Betjeman is arguably Britain's best-loved and most widely read poet. Summoned By Bells his verse autobiography is brim-full of classic Betjeman themes.

It tells the story of a boy's growth to early manhood - seaside holidays meddling aunts school bullies an unexpected moment of religious awakening then Oxford and sparkling pen-portraits of the literary greats he met there. His unabashedly musical verse is poignant comic reverent defiant devoted and always full of feeling.

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