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	John Betjeman.com
		A large collection of prose, bringing together a selection of John Betjeman's writings spanning four decades, discussing buildings, townscape and landscape, together with appreciations of writers, artists and architects, ranging from Evelyn Waugh, Pugin and T.S. Eliot, to R.S. Thomas, Etchells and Jacob Epstein.
		John Betjeman - Poet to Poet, by Hugo Williams.
		Covers Betjeman’s life from his university days through to his period on the staff of The Architectural Review, as editor of the Shell Guides in the 1930s, and as Press Attaché in Dublin during the War.
	www.johnbetjeman.com /shop.html (919 words)

	channel4.com - Real Lives - John Betjeman
		Sir John Betjeman's public image is that of a lifelong devotee of the English upper classes.
		John Betjeman's family background was far removed from the aristocratic milieu he loved.
		Betjeman found companionship with Elizabeth Cavendish, whom he met in 1951 –; the attraction was mutual, immediate and lifelong.
	www.channel4.com /history/microsites/R/real_lives/betjeman.html (803 words)

	John Betjeman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Betjeman's early schooling was at the local Byron House and Highgate School, where he was taught by the poet T S Eliot, after which he boarded at the Dragon School preparatory school in North Oxford and Marlborough College, a public school in Wiltshire.
		Betjeman had a poem published in Isis, a university magazine, and was editor of the Cherwell student newspaper during 1927.
		Betjeman was also closely associated with the culture and spirit of Metro-land, the name by which the outer reaches of the Metropolitan Railway were known before the war.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Betjeman (2266 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: John Betjeman
		John's first schools were the local Byron House and Highgate Junior Schools after which he boarded at the Dragon School preparatory school in Oxford and Marlborough College, a public school in Wiltshire, England.
		On 29 July 1933 John Betjeman married Penelope Chetwode, the daughter of a field marshal in the British Army, Lord Chetwode.
		John Betjeman In The West Country (made for the defunct ITV company TWW in 1962, this series was long thought lost, but was rediscovered in the 1990s and shown on Channel 4 under the titles The Lost Betjemans and Betjeman Revisited)
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/John-Betjeman (5795 words)

	Betjeman, Sir John - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		BETJEMAN, SIR JOHN [Betjeman, Sir John], 1906-84, English poet, b.
		Betjemanic: the centenary of Sir John Betjeman's birth is an opportunity to celebrate his selfless campaigning for threatened buildings.(ARCHITECTURE)(Column)
		BETJEMAN'S WOMEN; Poet Laureate John Betjeman was infatuated with women.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/B/Betjeman.asp (309 words)

	PR Studies: Betjeman: his life in PR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Betjeman: his life in PR As a minor contribution to the John Betjeman centenary celebrations I'd like to fill in a missing paragraph or two from the documented history of public relations.
		John Betjeman is not mentioned in Jacquie L'Etang's study of Public Relations in Britain, yet there's a case to be made for the poet and architectural writer to be considered one of the pioneering figures of public relations in twentieth century Britain.
		Betjeman may have cultivated something of an 'old fogey' image, but was a master of new media from his days as a film critic for the Evening Standard newspaper through to his famous TV documentaries for the BBC.
	prstudies.typepad.com /weblog/2006/08/betjeman_his_li.html (939 words)

	North Cornwall - Sir John Betjeman, Cornwall
		John Betjeman was born in London in 1906 and died in 1994 at Trebetherick, Daymer Bay, a place he grew to know and love as his parents had a house there where he spent his early holidays exploring the sands of Daymer and the Camel Estuary.
		This playground was an education in itself for Sir John and the freedom he must have enjoyed in his youth influenced his attitude to the formality of academics and his wish to be an independent and free spirit.
		Sir John's work was more nostalgic and whimsical, perhaps best enjoyed by his contemporaries able to have more of a feel for the images his work conjured up.
	www.north-cornwall.com /betjeman.htm (569 words)

	John_Betjeman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		John Betjeman was born '''John Betjemann''', which became the less German "Betjeman" during World War I.
		Betjeman may have left Oxford without a degree, but he had made the acquaintance of people who would influence his work, including Louis MacNeice, W H Auden, Maurice Bowra, Osbert Lancaster, Tom Driberg and the Sitwells.
		Betjeman, up to this point had been an admirer of Victorian decoration he changed his views, or bit his tongue, while writing for ''The Review'' - the editor was a vigorous proponent of the Modernism.
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	John Betjeman Summary
		Sir John Betjeman (1906-1984), Poet Laureate of Britain from 1972 to 1984, was the most popular English poet of the 20th century and a familiar personality on British television.
		John Betjeman was born in London on August 28, 1906, the only child of fath...
		[Betjeman] is the poet of rus in urbe.
	www.bookrags.com /John_Betjeman (421 words)

	English Poets Laureate: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Sir John Betjeman was born on August 28, 1906 in Highgate, London to Ernest Betjemann, a furniture maker of Dutch ancestry.
		Betjeman was an only child, and according to many accounts, he had a lonely childhood.
		One of Betjeman’s first duties as laureate was to produce a poem in honour of the wedding of Princess Anne.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~lanes/english/laureate/betjeman.htm (451 words)

	John Betjeman Library - University of Exeter Library and Information Service
		Betjeman succeeded Cecil Day Lewis as Poet Laureate in 1972, and he was to hold the position until his death.
		Betjeman accompanied his family on holidays in Trebetherick, North Cornwall, as a boy and he retained a life-long affection and association with the region which is reflected in his publications, including Victorian and Edwardian Cornwall from Old Photographs, compiled by John Betjeman and A.L. Rowse (1976) and Betjeman's Cornwall (1984).
		The working library of Sir John Betjeman was purchased from the poet's daughter, Candida Lycett Green, in 1997 with the help of Heritage Lottery Fund and a grant from the Esmée Fairburn Charitable Trust, as well as donations from private individuals and the University of Exeter.
	www.library.ex.ac.uk /special/guides/books/betjeman.html (777 words)

	Sir John Betjeman, friend of Cornwall
		Sir John Betjeman, the former poet laureate is buried at St Enodoc Church.
		Betjeman stuck to traditional verse forms and rhyme schemes, at a time when others flirted with free verse.
		In his verse autobiography, Summoned by Bells (1960), Betjeman tells the story of his boyhood and early adult life up to his employment as a teacher at a preparatory school.
	www.cornwall-calling.co.uk /famous-cornish-people/betjeman.htm (653 words)

	Sir John Betjeman
		Sir John Betjeman, who became Poet Laureate in 1972, was well known through his appearances on television, and his love of traditional architecture and churches.
		Betjeman's interest in churches and architecture was kindled at the Dragon School, but he had been interested in poetry from an early age.
		In 1945, John Wheeler, the landlord of Garrards Farm, decided he wanted the farm for his son and the Betjemans moved to the Old Rectory at Farnborough (Berkshire), a large house set on the downs near Wantage.
	www.btinternet.com /~tombrown/museum/betjeman.html (607 words)

	John Betjeman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Sir John Betjeman (1906 - 1984) was a British poet and writer on architecture.
		In his verse autobiography Summoned by Bells (1960) Betjeman tells the story of early life up to his employment as teacher at a preparatory school.
		Betjeman never took himself too His poems are often humorous and in life he enjoyed a career as a his popularity being in no small measure to his bumbling image.
	www.freeglossary.com /John_Betjeman (268 words)

	[minstrels] Executive -- John Betjeman
		One such happy discovery was Betjeman, one of my favourite modern poets, and while 'Executive' is far from his best poem, it was the one that got me hooked on his work.
		The son of a prosperous businessman, Betjeman grew up in a London suburb, where T.S. Eliot was one of his teachers.
		Betjeman's prose works include several guidebooks to English counties; First and Last Loves (1952), essays on places and buildings; The English Town in the Last Hundred Years (1956); and English Churches (1964; with Basil Clarke).
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/543.html (770 words)

	Betjeman Sir John - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Betjeman, Sir John (1906-1984), British Poet Laureate, architectural historian, and broadcaster, born in London.
		This report on the appointment of Sir John Betjeman as Poet Laureate appeared in The Times on October 11, 1972.
		The succeeding generation of poets, identified in the popular consciousness with the Depression and social upheaval of the 1930s, made use at first...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Betjeman_Sir_John.html (118 words)

	John Betjeman - biography online
		John Betjeman 1906 – 1984 became the most popular British poet of his age.
		However Betjeman was never interested in a career in business striving to make a living though poetry and literature.
		However to Betjeman humour was an important aspect of his own self expression.
	www.biographyonline.net /poets/john-betjeman.html (451 words)

	Poet: John Betjeman — Poet Seers
		John Betjeman 1906 – 1984 became the most popular British poet of his age.
		However Betjeman was never interested in a career in business striving to make a living though poetry and literature.
		This proved to be a sore point between the two as his father struggled to reconcile the decision of his father.
	www.poetseers.org /poets/john_betjeman (473 words)

	Betjeman - Book Reviews - Books - Entertainment - smh.com.au
		In modern times Betjeman has drawn criticism as a defender of a discarded caste and a discarded landscape, an apologist for a lost conservative establishment.
		Betjeman's mistress of many years was Elizabeth Cavendish, daughter of a duke of Devonshire, and a lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret.
		Betjeman was not steadfast, unselfconscious and strong - his own definition of goodness.
	www.smh.com.au /news/book-reviews/betjeman/2006/11/24/1164341384342.html (895 words)

	Geometry.Net - Celebrities Books: Betjeman John
		Betjeman is one of the most enduring and endearing of Britain's poets.
		Betjeman was an Anglican, and he is not shy about his faith, nor about acknowledging its shortcomings.
		Elsewhere, Betjeman treats sexuality with a candour that shocks, and firmly dispells any lingering suspicions that he is merely a fat, jovial and reserved old Englishman (see Late-Flowering Lust).
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	Betjeman, John
		Betjeman's verse, seen by some as facile, has been much enjoyed for its compassion and wit, and its evocation of places and situations.
		He was knighted in 1969 and became poet laureate in 1972.
		Betjeman was born in London and educated at Oxford University.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0017835.html (334 words)

	John Betjeman—a centenary view Contemporary Review - Find Articles
		Betjeman's stance in poetry may have found some inspiration in Eliot's view that 'the business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all'.
		Although Betjeman, at times, used a gentle satire, he could express genuine sympathy over sadness as in Death in Leamington and The Death of King George V. His spiritual strength, although shot through with some humour and the odd whimsy, was always coming to the surface.
		Betjeman's first volume, Mount Zion, appeared in 1933, when he was 27 and his final actual new collection came out in 1954, thirty years before his death, although his booklet Poems in the Porch (Diary of a Church Mouse) came out concurrently to achieve a kind of finality and wide recognition.
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	Web exclusive: 'Betjemania!' by Michael Horovitz \| Prospect Magazine September 2006 issue 126
		Betjeman's lifelong production of poems has enjoyed bigger sales—over 2m of the "Collected Poems" to date—than that of anyone since his beloved Tennyson, presumably abetted by the fact that Betjeman did so much else, more and more publicly, in his later years.
		Betjeman has as much in common with Lennon and McCartney, or with his fellow celebrant of village greens and suburbia, Ray Davies of the Kinks, as he does with his ex-Highgate Junior School teacher TS Eliot.
		Betjeman’s radio talks were what first brought him a large and enthusiastic public audience in the early 1930s, and the beautifully produced "Trains and Buttered Toast" (Murray £14.99), expertly edited by Stephen Games, belatedly brings their scripts together.
	www.prospect-magazine.co.uk /article_details.php?id=7745 (1440 words)

	Betjeman
		Sir John Betjeman is buried at St. Enodoc Church, Trebetherick, North Cornwall, England.
		At a time when many others poets were experimenting with free verse - Betjeman stuck firmly to traditional verse forms and rhyme schemes.
		Betjeman was also a great champion of endangered architecture and an engaging TV presenter.
	www.poetsgraves.co.uk /betjeman.htm (266 words)

	John Betjeman - Poetry Archive
		John Betjeman (1906-1984) achieved huge success during his lifetime and continues to retain his 'National Treasure' status more than twenty years after his death.
		He was the son of a manufacturer of luxurious household goods, a background that provided him with a comfortable childhood but also left him socially insecure, conscious of his family's status as 'trade' in an era of more rigid social class distinctions.
		Betjeman's wide appeal and his conservatism in form and theme have tended to obscure his achievements as a serious poet, but he was rated highly by his contemporaries and no less a figure than W. Auden edited a choice of Betjeman's verse in 1947.
	www.poetryarchive.org /poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=1536 (296 words)

	John Betjeman.com
		When John Betjeman’s Collected Poems came out in 1958 they made publishing history and have since sold over two and a quarter million copies.
		Through his broadcasting and journalism he opened people’s eyes to the value of the buildings and landscape around them and became Britain’s grand champion of its heritage.
		The John Betjeman Young People's Poetry Competition 2007 - Winner to be announced at the Cheltenham Festival of Literature
	www.johnbetjeman.com (99 words)

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