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John Betjeman and Cornwall

John Betjeman and Cornwall

John Betjeman and Cornwall

Philip Payton / Philip Prof. Payton

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University of Exeter Press
Año de edición:
2010
Materia
Biografía: general
ISBN:
9780859898485
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Quintessentially English, Betjeman was an ’outsider’ in England - and doubly so in Cornwall where he was a ‘foreigner’. And yet, as this book describes, Betjeman also strove to acquire a veneer of ‘Cornishness’, cultivating an alternative Celtic identity, and finding inspiration in Cornwall’s Anglo-Catholic tradition.

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