John Betjeman Summary

Biography EssayJohn Betjeman was a unique figure in twentieth-century English poetry, enjoying a degree of fame and success unequaled by any poet since George Gordon, Lord Byron. His Collected Poems ... Read more

John Betjeman is a unique figure in twentieth-century English poetry, enjoying a degree of fame and success unequaled by any poet since Byron. His Collected Poems of 1958 reputedly sold more than 100,... Read more

Critical Essay by G. M. Harvey [Although] he writes from within the essentially middle-class tradition of English liberal humanism, Betjeman has been a consistently subversive force in modern English... Read more

Critical Essay by Willard Spiegelman Sir John Betjeman is now England's Poet Laureate, and the recent brouhaha over his silver anniversary poem to the Queen is a sign of the dangers of being t... Read more

Does war overcome hypocrisy? John Betjeman partially answers this question in the poem "In Westminster Abbey." The poem is about a self absorbed woman doing the least she possibly can to ensure a good... Read more