summoned by bells造句

• The English poet, Sir John Betjeman mentioned the church in his poem " Summoned by Bells " ( 1960 ), chapter VIII.
• Betjemann was the grandfather of the poet John Betjeman, who in " Summoned by Bells " called it the source of the family fortune.
• Much of this period of his life is recorded in his blank verse autobiography " Summoned by Bells " published in 1960 and made into a television film in 1976.
• As an example of how bad it used to be, Dawkins cited a passage from the British poet John Betjeman's 1960 autobiographical poem, " Summoned by Bells ."
• "Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows, " the English poet John Betjeman wrote in " Summoned by Bells ."
• Casson supplied watercolour illustrations for a new edition of Sir John Betjeman's verse autobiography " Summoned by Bells " ( 1960 ); " The Illustrated " Summoned by Bells " " was published by John Murray in 1989.
• Casson supplied watercolour illustrations for a new edition of Sir John Betjeman's verse autobiography " Summoned by Bells " ( 1960 ); " The Illustrated " Summoned by Bells " " was published by John Murray in 1989.
• It was tidied up and given extra decorations _ a bell recalling Betjeman's long autobiographical poem " Summoned by Bells " and the Book of Common Prayer and King James Bible, as testament to his lifelong devotion to the Church of England.
• ""'Summoned by Bells " "', the blank verse autobiography by John Betjeman, describes his life from his early memories of a middle-class home in Edwardian Hampstead, London, to his premature departure from Magdalen College, Oxford.
• In 1962 he illustrated an edition of J . M . Barrie's " Peter Pan ", retold by Eleanor Graham, and " A Ring of Bells " ( 1962 ), John Betjeman's abridged version for children of his autobiographical poem " Summoned by Bells " ( 1960 ).
• His proposal to the poet was for a study of the Church of England to be titled " Failed in Divinity ", a line derived from Betjeman's poetic autobiography " Summoned by Bells ", in which the poet relates how was sent down from the University of Oxford after failing a compulsory examination on divinity.
• Betjeman records his appreciation of Bowra in his verse autobiography " Summoned by Bells ", in which he evokes an evening spent dining with Bowra in a passage that concludes : " I wandered back to Magdalen, certain then, / As now, that Maurice Bowra s company / Taught me far more than all my tutors did ."
• Most of Robert Frost's narrative and conversational poems are in blank verse; so are other important poems like Wallace Stevens's " The Idea of Order at Key West " and " The Comedian as the Letter C ", W . B . Yeats's " The Second Coming ", W . H . Auden's " The Watershed " and John Betjeman's " Summoned by Bells ".
• Betjeman spoke about his verse autobiography and the making of the film : " I always had filthy reviews for it, and I didn't think it very good . " He recalls that Joe Orton was arrested for defacing books in the public library-among them " Summoned by Bells "-on which he had stuck a pornographic picture . " I wrote it thinking it the best way to write about being young.
• The parallel history of the verse autobiography, from strong Victorian foundation with Wordsworth's " The Prelude " ( 1805, 1850 ), to decline with Modernism and later twentieth-century revival with John Betjeman's " Summoned by Bells " ( 1960 ), Walcott's " Another Life " ( 1973 ), and James Merrill's " The Changing Light at Sandover " ( 1982 ), is also striking.