CS Lewis, Oxford don and author of The Chronicles of Narnia (left) and his one-time student (and future poet laureate) John Betjeman No one wields a well-turned insult like a professional writer. As ...

If you write a biography of Oscar Wilde or George Bernard Shaw, as my friends Richard Ellmann and Michael Holroyd have respectively done, the books sell in America. My life of John Betjeman has been a ...

Highgate born and bred Sir John Betjeman campaigned to save St Pancras station and earned himself a statue, and a pub named after him.

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 ...

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 ...

Behind his carefully cultivated teddy bear image, Betjeman wrestled with doubts and demons. What endures in his work is not simply the laughter, but the fear beneath it. AN Wilson talks to people who ...

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