| Management number | 254274207 | Release Date | 2026/11/07 | List Price | US$5.93 | Model Number | 254274207 | ||
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<p>In a 1962 radio interview he told teenage questioners that he could not write about 'abstract things', preferring places and faces. Philip Larkin wrote of Betjeman's work, "how much more interesting & worth writing about (his) subjects are than most other modern poets, I mean, whether so-and-so achieves some metaphysical inner unity is not really so interesting as the overbuilding of rural Middlesex.</p>
| Performer | John Betjeman |
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| Music genre | Comedy |
| Music subgenre | CD - COMEDY |
| Music release type | Release |
| Media format | CD |
| Original release date | 2019 |
| Edition | Standard |
| Is collectible | Y |
| Has parental advisory label | N |
| Number of discs | 1 |
| Series title | John Betjeman - John Betjeman: 35 Favourite Poems [COMPACT DISCS] |
| Track listing | False Security, Hunter Trials, Seaside Golf, Norfolk, Sunday in Ireland, Remorse, Youth and Age on Beaulieu River, A Subaltern's Love Song, Reproof Deserved (After the Lecture), Business Women, Song of a Night-Club Proprietress (Aka 'Sun & Fun'), The Licorice Fields at Pontefract, Our Padre, Indoor Games Near Newbury, How to Get on in Society, Late Flowering Lust, Middlesex, Harrow-On-The-Hill, Trebetherick, The Arrest of Oscar Wilde, In Memoriam Walter Ramsden, Devonshire Street, W.1, In a Bath Teashop, To My Son Aged Eight, On a Portrait of a Deaf Man, Death at Leamington Read, Christmas |
| Record label | Alto |
| Songwriter | John Betjeman |
| Track name | Late Flowering Lust, A Subaltern's Love Song, The Arrest of Oscar Wilde, Seaside Golf, How to Get on in Society, False Security, Hunter Trials, Norfolk, Sunday in Ireland, Remorse, Youth and Age on Beaulieu River, Reproof Deserved (After the Lecture), Business Women, Song of a Night-Club Proprietress (Aka 'Sun & Fun'), The Licorice Fields at Pontefract, Our Padre, Indoor Games Near Newbury, Middlesex, Harrow-On-The-Hill, Trebetherick, In Memoriam Walter Ramsden, Devonshire Street, W.1, In a Bath Teashop, To My Son Aged Eight, On a Portrait of a Deaf Man, Death at Leamington Read, Christmas |
| Digital audio file format | CD |
| Music media format | CD |
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