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Philip Larkin, a big, fat, bald librarian at the University of Hull, was unquestionably England's unofficial laureate: our best-loved poet since the war; better loved for our poet than John Betjeman, who was loved also for his charm, his famous beagle, his patrician Bohemianism and his televisual charisma, all of which Larkin notably lacked.
Ten years later, Larkin is now something like a pariah, or an untouchable.
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To her daughter Penelope of her future son-in-law, the poet John Betjeman:
We invite people like that to our houses, but we don't marry them.
Philip Chetwode, 1st Baron Chetwode
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The quickest way to start a punch-up between two British literary critics is to ask them what they think of the poems of Sir John Betjeman
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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.
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John Betjeman
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Born:
August 28, 1906
Died:
May 19, 1984
(aged 77)
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