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John and Betjeman's
Despite famously heckling Slough, John Betjeman's praise for the Town Hall's architecture as ' a striving for unity out of chaos ' in 1948 has never been so relevant as today.
In 1980 he played the Funny Uncle in a dramatisation of the John Betjeman poem " Indoor Games Near Newbury ", part of an ITV special titled Betjeman's Britain that also starred Peter Cook and Susannah York.
Keble is mentioned in John Betjeman's poem " Myfanwy at Oxford ", as well as in the writings of John Ruskin and in Monty Python's " Travel Agent " sketch.
* Finsbury Park mentioned in John Betjeman's poem, ' The Cockney Amorist '
The amphibrach is also often used in ballads and light verse, such as the hypermetrical lines of Sir John Betjeman's " Meditation on the A30 ".
* Lupin Pooter is mentioned in John Betjeman's poem " Middlesex ".
Most of Robert Frost's narrative and conversational poems are in blank verse ; so are other important poems like Wallace Stevens's " The Idea of Order at Key West " and " The Comedian as the Letter C ", W. B. Yeats's " The Second Coming ", W. H. Auden's " The Watershed " and John Betjeman's Summoned by Bells.
She lives in St John's Wood, London, in a house previously occupied by Reverend John Hugh Smyth-Piggott, and by Charles Saatchi, and which was featured in Sir John Betjeman's 1973 film Metro-land.
" Later the neighbourhood became more respectable and solidly residential-although in 1909 when John Betjeman's family moved to West Hill, Highgate they obviously felt that they were a cut above Gospel Oak:
In John Betjeman's poem " Shattered Image " ( 1970 ), an accused child molestor wonders how many of his Tuinal-used, presumably, as a recreational depressant-it will take to kill himself.
The station achieved poetic immortality in John Betjeman's poem Middlesex:
In 1973, he published both Goodbye London ( written with John Betjeman's daughter Candida Lycett Green ), and, with Bennie Gray, was the IPC Campaigning Journalist of the Year.
Evelyn Waugh, John Betjeman and Julian Barnes all dispensed with the hyphen ( though it was inserted by the BBC for Betjeman's documentary of 1973 ).
Sir John Betjeman's guide to English parish churches, revised and updated by Nigel Kerr.
John Betjeman's grave is on the right immediately inside the entrance gate to St Enodoc's churchyard.
Image: Betjeman memorial. JPG | John Betjeman's grave
" But it was W. H. Auden who used the term in his 1948 introduction to John Betjeman's poetry book Slick but Not Streamlined.
Despite some 19th-century additions it was famously described in John Betjeman's book as " unspoiled, unspruced Georgian ".
James ' first sponsorship of note was in publishing John Betjeman's first book of poems when at Oxford.
The term " Tudorbethan " is modelled on John Betjeman's 1933 coinage of the " Jacobethan " style, which he used to describe the grand mixed revival style of circa 1835 – 1885 that had been called things like " Free English Renaissance ".
In the first half of the 20th century, increasingly minimal " Tudor " references for " instant " atmosphere in speculative construction cheapened the style, which was finally epitomized in John Betjeman's angry 1937 poem Slough, where " bald young clerks " gather:

John and poem
One beat poet composes a poem, `` Lines On A Tijuana John '', which contains a few happy hints for survival.
Beauty and Truth have been argued to be nearly synonymous, as reflected in the statement " Beauty is truth, truth beauty " in the poem Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats.
This view is presented in English poet John Keats ' poem To Autumn, where he describes the season as a time of bounteous fecundity, a time of ' mellow fruitfulness '.
According to Lycophron's Alexandra ( 808 ) and John Tzetzes ' scholia on the poem ( 795-808 ), however, Circe used magical herbs to bring Odysseus back to life after he had been killed by Telegonus.
There is a very different interpretation of the encounter with Circe in John Gower's long didactic poem Confessio Amantis ( 1380 ).
Burroughs cited T. S. Eliot's poem, The Waste Land ( 1922 ) and John Dos Passos ' U. S. A. trilogy, which incorporated newspaper clippings, as early examples of the cut ups he popularized.
The two line poetic form as a closed couplet was also used by William Blake in his poem Auguries of Innocence and also by Byron ( Don Juan ( Byron ) XIII ); John Gay ( Fables ); Alexander Pope ( An Essay on Man ).
A biography of Carangi by Stephen Fried called Thing of Beauty ( the title of John Keats ' famous poem ) was published in 1993.
Another writer influenced by the plot was John Milton, who in 1626 wrote what one commentator has called a " critically vexing poem ", In Quintum Novembris.
* " Hyperion " ( poem ), by John Keats
John Finley of Richmond, Indiana, wrote a poem, " The Hoosier's Nest ", which was published in 1833 and was used as the " Carrier's Address " of the Indianapolis Journal, January 1, 1833.
Dunn, by contrast, concluded that Indiana settlers adopted the word as a humorous nickname, and that the negative connotation had already faded when John Finley wrote his poem.
Image: TheJabberwocky. jpg | The Jabberwock, as illustrated by John Tenniel for Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, including the poem " Jabberwocky ".
* 1816 – Lord Byron reads Fantasmagoriana to his four house guests at the Villa Diodati, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori, and inspires his challenge that each guest write a ghost story, which culminated in Mary Shelley writing the novel Frankenstein, John Polidori writing the short story The Vampyre, and Byron writing the poem Darkness.
The Wound-Dresser ( 1988 ): John Adams's setting of Walt Whitman's poem, " The Wound-Dresser ", which Whitman wrote after visiting wounded soldiers during the American Civil War.
The romance tradition did, however, remain sufficiently powerful to persuade Thomas Hardy, Laurence Binyon and John Masefield to compose Arthurian plays, and T. S. Eliot alludes to the Arthur myth ( but not Arthur ) in his poem The Waste Land, which mentions the Fisher King.
Coleridge did write to John Thelwall, 14 October 1797, to describe his feelings related to those expressed in the poem:
" Byron arranged for John Murray to publish the poem with Christabel and " The Pains of Sleep " along with prefaces to the works.
The person from Porlock later became a word to describe interrupted genius, and the literary critic Walter Jackson Bate recounted that while John Livingston Lowes taught the poem, he told his students " If there is any man in the history of literature who should be hanged, drawn, and quartered, it is the man on business from Porlock.
" Following in 1959, John Beer described the complex nature of the poem: " Kubla Khan the poem is not a meaningless reverie, but a poem so packed with meaning as to render detailed elucidation extremely difficult.
She is also mentioned in the poem Appius and Virginia by John Webster and Thomas Heywood, which includes the following lines:
* 1915 – The poem In Flanders Fields is written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.

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