Word: betjeman
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...When I was younger, less secure and less repulsive," confided Britain's best-selling Poet John Betjeman, 55, to Associated Press Confessor Eddy Gilmore, "I used to wear modern things. But now I look at the best-dressed men and wear exactly the opposite." So crowing, the latter-day Victorian and crusading architectural antiquarian modeled the glory of his ragbag wardrobe: a morning suit originally made for U.S. Novelist Henry James -who died in, London 45 years ago. "It's wonderful to wear his clothes." beamed Fellow Author Betjeman. "I didn't need a single alteration...
...Oxford,* "snob" is not just another four-letter word but a way of being. Class, according to the despairing cry of Poet John Betjeman, is the primary English passion, one that has survived the welfare state and the shrunken horizons of em pire. The subject, class, and the scene, Oxford, form the substance of this depressing but enlightening fictional report on what might be called the Cold War Generation...
Summoned by Bells, by John Betjeman. In a charming autobiography in verse, the author tells of a youth that was unremarkable except for the pain, joy and insight that go with being a poet...
...John Graves. The Brazos River in Texas was to be ruined by power dams, and the author, who writes well of the region's wildlife and wild living, tells of a three-week solo canoe trip he made as a farewell gesture. Summoned by Bells, by John Betjeman. In a charming autobiography in verse, the author tells of a boyhood and young manhood that were unremarkable except for the pain, joy and insight that go with being a poet...
...hated sports, had to take a job at a prep school as cricket master. There ends Summoned by Bells, neither major poetry nor an exceptional life, but a memoir suffused with moving scenes of an older England, a singing recollection of what it was to be John Betjeman-young and a poet...