Betjeman | A.N. Wilson

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A celebration of a much-loved poet, a brave campaigner for architecture at risk, and a highly popular public performer.  Paperback Ed 2006

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Brilliant and endearing, John Betjeman was by far the most popular poet of the 20th century, a poet laureate whose books sold more than two million copies. His passion for Britian's heritage, landscape and architecture-and his campaigning zeal for their preservation-made him one of our best-loved national figures. Behind the public man, however, were doubts and demons. For much of his fifty-year marriage to Penelope Chetwoode, the daughter of a field marshal. Betjeman had a relationship with Elizabeth Cavendish, the daughter of the Duke of Devonshire and lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret. Betjeman, a devout Anglican, was tormented by guilt about the storms this emotional triangle caused. Paperback ed 2007

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