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TRAVELS IN ITALY from kendrive ^Pro 15 days old

Swinburne takes us to three Italian cities. THREE FACES I. VENTIMIGLIA The sky and sea glared hard and bright and blank: Down the one steep street, ...

TOUCHED THE FACE OF GOD from kendrive ^Pro 93 days old

HIGH FLIGHT John Gillespie Magee, Junior (June 9, 1922 – December 11, 1941) was an Anglo-American aviator and poet who died as a result of a mid-air ...

TRAVELLING from kendrive ^Pro 370 days old

C. Day-Lewis comments on travel for travel's sake and reminds us that, in life, the virtue can be in staying what and where we are. THE TOURISTS Arriving ...

JOURNEYING from kendrive ^Pro 494 days old

[ ... ] We travel not for trafficking alone; By hotter winds our fiery hearts are fanned: For lust of knowing what should not be known We make the ...

DEAR MARY from kendrive ^Pro 753 days old

[ ... ] better travel second; Or, lest reporters on us burst, Perhaps we'd better travel first. Above the chimney-pots we'll go Through Stepney, ...

UP ON THE DOWNS from kendrive ^Pro 763 days old

It is 1925 and JB is at his first year at Magdalen College, Oxford. He goes for a hike on the downs near Winchester - where once I lived. (No, I lived ...

IT'S STILL OPEN ! from kendrive ^Pro 771 days old

Betjeman was passionate about the English countryside and a fierce campaigner against its desecration by urbanisation. He also had a great affection ...

THE EMERALD ISLE from kendrive ^Pro 773 days old

Public houses in Irish country towns are very often general merchants as well. You drink at a counter with bacon on it. Brooms and plastic dustpans ...

THE WAY THINGS WERE from kendrive ^Pro 775 days old

I am old enough to remember holidays just like this one, described by John Betjeman. Long before jetting off abroad - we used to go to the 'English ...

SHADES OF HIAWATHA from kendrive ^Pro 776 days old

Enjoy Betjeman's parody of Longfellow's verse form in a trip to Venice. LONGFELLOW'S VISIT TO VENICE (To be read in a quiet New England accent) Near ...