There should be a warning sticker on the cover of this biography of the English poet John Betjeman (1906-84): "Anglophiles Only!" A.N. Wilson -- a prolific and much admired novelist, biographer and ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Joan Hunter Dunn, genteel muse to Britain's Poet Laureate John Betjeman and the inspiration for one of his best known poems, has died at the age of 92. Sign up here. Betjeman, who ...

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 ...

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 ...

In his valuable collection of essays and reviews, Required Writing, Philip Larkin wondered–in a piece about Sir John Betjeman–“Can it be that, as Eliot dominated the first half of the twentieth ...

She had persuaded John Masefield, when he was Poet Laureate, to lay the foundation stone of the block of flats. The stone was engraved “LAID BY THE POET LAUREATE.” “Every nice girl’s ambition,” ...

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