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John Betjeman
B. 1906 D. 1984
John Betjeman (1906-1984) achieved huge success during his lifetime and continues to retain his ‘National Treasure’ status more than twenty years after his death. His gift for comic writing, his…
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John Heath Stubbs
B. 1918 D. 2006
John Heath-Stubbs (1918 – 2006) recalled how the teacher at his tiny village school read her pupils Our Island Story, sparking in him the lifelong fascination with history that informed…
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Youth and Age on Beaulieu River - John Betjeman
Early sun on Beaulieu water Lights the undersides of oaks, Clumps of leaves it floods and blanches, All transparent glow the branches Which the double sunlight soaks; To her craft…
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I see the winding water make A short and then a shorter lake As here stand I, And house-boat high, Survey the Upper Thames. By sun the mud is amber-dyed…
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A Subaltern’s Love Song - John Betjeman
Miss J.Hunter Dunn, Miss J.Hunter Dunn, Furnish’d and burnish’d by Aldershot sun, What strenuous singles we played after tea, We in the tournament – you against me! Love-thirty, love-forty, oh!…
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Luke Wright
B. 1982
…cites John Betjeman as a major influence, chiefly for ‘…his use of form and his sense of Englishness’, and is like Betjeman (as described by Jocelyn Brooke) in the way…
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Pam Ayres
B. 1947
…her performances. It is a specially English brand of humour deriving from the tradition of music hall, via John Betjeman and the comic observation of the artist Beryl Cook. On…
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R. S. Thomas
B. 1913 D. 2000
…at the Year’s Turning. In his famous introduction John Betjeman wrote “the name which has the honour to introduce this fine poet to a wider public will be forgotten long…
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Wendy Cope
B. 1945
…O.B.E. in the Queen’s Birthday honours 2010. She currently lives in Winchester. Cope’s rueful wisdom connects her to the tradition of Betjeman and Larkin, but she brings a fresh female…