Romantic Moderns author-steven-heller Striking the right balance is

Striking the right balance is crucial

it seemed a betrayal that John Betjeman and John Piper were in love with a provincial world of old churches and tea-shops

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Romantic Moderns author-steven-heller Striking the right balance isEngland has had a bad press from the Modernist disciples of a shiny, high speed future. While the battles for modern art and modern society were being fought in Paris and Spain, it seemed a betrayal that John Betjeman and John Piper were in love with a provincial world of old churches and tea shops. Alexandra Harris tells a different story. In the 1930s and 1940s, artists and writers explored what it might mean to be alive now, and in England.