Sir John Betjeman CBE (/ ˈ b ɛ tʃ ə m ən /; 28 August 1906 – 19 May 1984) was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster. He was Poet Laureate from 1972 until his death. He was a founding member of The Victorian Society and a passionate defender of Victorian architecture , helping to save St Pancras railway station from demolition.
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John Betjeman Londres 28 de agosto - Trebetherick, Cornualha 19 de maio de 1984) foi um poeta, escritor e radialista . Foi membro fundador da sociedade vitoriana e um apaixonado defensor da arquitetura vitoriana. Iniciando sua carreira como jornalista, terminou como um dos mais populares poetas laureados britânicos. .
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14 de jan. de 2016 · By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Sir John Betjeman (1906-1984) was UK Poet Laureate from 1972 until his death, and became one of Britain’s best-loved poets of the twentieth century. When his Collected Poems was published in 1955, it was a bestseller. Below is our selection of Betjeman’s best poems, along with a short ...
24 de ago. de 2023 · John Betjeman, in full Sir John Betjeman, (born August 28, 1906, London, England—died May 19, 1984, Trebetherick, Cornwall), British poet known for his nostalgia for the near past, his exact sense of place, and his precise rendering of social nuance, which made him widely read in England at a time when much of what he wrote about ...
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John Betjeman, poet laureate of the United Kingdom from 1972 until his death in 1984, was known by many as a poet whose writing evoked a sense of nostalgia. He utilized traditional poetic forms, wrote with a light touch about public issues, celebrated classic architecture, and satirized much of…
Works of John Betjeman. Betjeman in 1961. Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984) was a twentieth-century English poet, writer and broadcaster. Born to a middle-class family in Edwardian Hampstead, he attended Oxford University, although left without graduating. [1]
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