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‘Lightweight’ Betjeman was initially overlooked for poet laureate
Evening Standard via Yahoo News UK· 12 months agoSir John Betjeman, one of the best-loved British poets of the 20th century, was initially overlooked...
Voices: The Top 10: Underrated children’s books (part I)
The Independent via Yahoo News UK· 2 years agoThis list started with a quotation from WH Auden: “There are no good books which are only for...
Love Possession? Here are 5 more great works by AS Byatt
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 8 months agoAS Byatt often wrote about what she knew. Her characters largely operated in the same literary...
All the poets turned down for the laureate in 1968
Evening Standard via Yahoo News UK· 12 months agoProminent poets of the era — including John Betjeman, WH Auden, and Philip Larkin — were disparaged, accused of being drunkards, snobs, communists,...