John Betjeman first fell in love with Cornwall during his childhood
holidays and continued to return to it yearly until his death. It
inspired some of his best poems and most evocative prose. The Cornish
cliffs and beaches, modest churches and formidable sea have the power to
stir him which only first love possesses. Opening with two long passages
from his verse autobiography, Summoned by Bells, this collection then
alternates between poems and prose.