Poet Laureate from 1972 until his death in 1984, Sir John Betjeman's wryly comic verse achieved a level of popularity unusual for contemporary poetry. He was recorded reading this particular ...

Despite becoming poet laureate in 1930, John Masefield always considered himself to be a Victorian. His simple manner and narrative poetry were addressed to, and popular with, ‘the common man’. In ...

His grandfather, Sir John Betjeman, earned a place in the public's heart unequalled by any other Poet Laureate since Lord Tennyson, while his mother, Candida, dazzled a generation of men in her ...

A selection from the first volume of John Betjeman's letters ... A selection from the first volume of the future British Poet Laureate's letters. Omnibus of five parts abridged by Andrew Simpson.