LONDON -- She was an innocent beauty working in the catering department of a wartime ministry. He was making government films by day and writing poems at night. Their eyes met; something clicked. A ...
John Betjeman, 52, is a gentle, witty, rumpled Englishman who has been called “the greatest bad poet now living.” It would be in character if he agreed with that estimate, although he can be called ...
A neat comic sense, an unfeigned comfort with 19th-century manners and forms, and a good eye for English milieus made Betjeman (1906–1984) both a great craftsman of light verse and the most popular ...
Richard Jenkyns is the author, most recently, of A Fine Brush onIvory: An Appreciation of Jane Austen (Oxford University Press). Betjeman: A Life By A.N. Wilson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 375 pp., ...
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