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 Cornwalls Anglo-Catholic tradition.
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 Cornwalls Anglo-Catholic tradition.