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 ...

There should be a warning sticker on the cover of this biography of the English poet John Betjeman (1906-84): "Anglophiles Only!" A.N. Wilson -- a prolific and much admired novelist, biographer and ...

A neat comic sense, an unfeigned comfort with 19th-century manners and forms, and a good eye for English milieus made Betjeman (1906–1984) both a great craftsman of light verse and the most popular ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...