Word: betjeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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COLLECTED POEMS OF JOHN BETJEMAN...
...chatty, alumni-bulletin fashion, the Establishment Chronicle noted: "We have lost touch with the following old boys: A. Eden, G. Burgess, D. Maclean, O. Mosley," and offered condolences to Number 96453. "Betjeman, J. Our great friend, this poet has aspired to write esoteric verse. Unfortunately his work has now received general acclaim . . ." Current members in good standing include Lord Mountbatten, Evelyn Waugh. Sir Gladwyn Jebb, T. S. Eliot, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd, but not Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell (though he is an Oxford man); Press Lords Kemsley and Astor...
...GOLDEN TREASURY OF JOHN BETJEMAN (Spoken Arfs). In a series of dry and witty poems, read with impeccable comic pitch, the author (TIME, Feb. 2) recalls an England of "retired schoolmasters, retired colonels and handsome, healthy children'' with bodies "bursting into teens." In "amatory" mood, he sings his passion for a tennis partner...
...poetry hour, held Fridays from four to six p.m. in the Lamont Forum Room, features this week some of the works of Dylan Thomas, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost and John Betjeman...
...England, but they have a curiously American shine to their ways. His heroines would seem the image of Harry Leon Wilson flappers of pre-World War I America-the America first known to Wodehouse-were it not for the fact that they are simultaneously as British as Poet John Betjeman's strong-armed Dianas; they display the "outer crust ... of Miss Marilyn Monroe," and yet still manage to draw from their swains such modish endearments of the British '20s as a "tenderly" spoken "old blighter." Wodehouse heroes are often golfers, but they play upon courses which seem...