John Betjeman

Sir John Betjeman (28 August 1906 – 19 May 1984) was a British poet and writer on architecture. He was born in Highgate, London to a furniture-maker of Dutch ancestry and was educated at Marlborough College before going to Magdalen College, Oxford. He left Oxford without a degree when he neglected his work and failed his divinity exams.

Bibliography

• Mount Zion: or: In Touch with the Infinite (1931)
• Continual Dew: A Little Book of Bourgeois Verse (1937)
• Old Lights for New Chancels (1940)
• New Bats in Old Belfries (1945)
• A Few Late Chrysanthemums (1954)
• Collected Poems (1958)
• Summoned by Bells (1960)