
Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984) was an English poet, famous for poetry portraying British life and nature, often humourously. He recorded 4 albums for Charisma Records : 'Betjeman's Banana Blush' , 'Late Flowering Love' (both 1974),' Betjeman's Britain' ( 1977) and ' Varsity Rag' (1981) with musical arrangements by Jim Parker He was Poet Laureate from 1972 until his death.
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The Licorice Fields At Pontefract
Indoor Games Near Newbury
The Cockney Amorist
Business Girls
Agricultural Caress
A Shropshire Lad
The Arrest Of Oscar Wilde At The Cadogan Hotel
On A Portrait Of A Deaf Man
The Flight From Bootle
Lenten Thoughts
Longfellow's Visit To Venice
Youth And Age On Beaulieu River Hants
A Russell Flint
Narcissus
Myfanwy And Myfanwy At Oxford
Late-Flowering Lust
The Olympic Girl
Invasion Exercise On The Poultry Farm
In The Public Gardens
Senex
Eunice
Sun And Fun
Slough
Station Syren
Christmas
Youth And Age On Beaulieu River, Hants
Death In Leamington
A Subaltern's Love Song
City
The Varsity Students' Rag
In A Bath Teashop
Middlesex
Harrow-On-The-Hill
South London 1844
Seaside Golf
Autumn 1964
Beaumaris
Hunter Trials
South London 1944
Death Of King George V
Exeter
Upper Lambourne
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Parliament Hill Fields
The Costa Blanca She
The Costa Blanca He (5 Years Later)
Licorice Fields Of Pontefract
County
North Coast Recollections (Extract)
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