Talk:John Betjeman

message: "He was alleged to be a snob, a romantic, out of touch with the realities of contemporary life and steeped in nostalgia.[who?] While these criticisms contain an element of truth, his opposition to modernism's rejection of history and disdain for the individual has since found support as modernism's full rigour has in turn been rejected and supplanted, and human scale and cultural context have been readmitted to serious debate."
This doesn't seem very NPOV... I think the page on Modernism would disagree with this dismissal.
77.97.143.150 (talk) 17:15, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Dismissal of Modernism?

message: Quick question - Were Betjeman and MacNeice not already aquainted from Marlborough rather than later on at Oxford as stated?
:I believe you are right. Anthony Blunt was another of his contemporaries at Marlborough.--Oxonian2006 16:47, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll see if I can look this up   Saltmarsh 14:35, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Quick question

message: I thought the depression and daffodils comment was said by Larkin about himself
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You may well be correct. It was Phillip Larkin who according to Collin's Concise dictionary of Quotations said "Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth" in an article in The Observer newspaper in 1979. Is the quote in our article simply a mistake, or was it Betjeman paraphrasing Larkin or visa-versa? Mighty Antar 15:14, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Depression and daffodils 

message: As Jamie T using Betjeman's work is mentioned here, is it not equally relevant to add that the band British Sea Power are fans, appearing on the BBC2 documentary Betjeman and Me, performing The Licorice Fields at Pontefract? Their lyrics also share themes with much of the poetry, examples can be provided --Sparrow 08 (talk) 22:16, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Since his death 

message: In his autobiography "sumoned by bells' he says that his family were of Dutch origin contrary to the belief who had mistakenly thought that his name was German.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.159.153.74 (talk) 16:46, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Germany? 

message: Despite Betjeman's categorisation as a Private Eye contributor, this isn't mentioned anywhere in the article. --81.156.177.239 (talk) 00:17, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Private Eye 

message: Webpage for TW3 suggests that Betjeman was a writer for it. 202.78.34.38 (talk) 10:22, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  That Was The Week That Was  

message: This article contains much interesting information and much cloth-eared English. How very strange that someone who obviously loves English verse should be so totally at sea in the aesthetics of the English language. PiCo (talk) 10:16, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Style 

message: I removed the link to Wilkin's site, the audio is clearly from Betjeman's Banana Blush, and the site has no copyright or license statements anywhere. Paradoctor (talk) 11:54, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Betjeman's Banana Blush 

message: I'd like to propose changing JB's place of birth from Camden to Hampstead.
Camden, a name thought up for the 1960s Borough as part of the re-orginisation of Local Government in London, was certainly not where JB was born. Camden Town, the only Camden of the 1900s was part of the Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras.
I'm convinced JB himself would disapprove of the use of the ugly 1960s named Camden!
So let's change JB's Birthplace to Hampstead (MB of).
Sounds good Spanglej (talk) 20:41, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Place of Birth - Camden?  No thank you..! 

message: We're very short on refs. Parts of the article still read like a college essay. If anyone has any links to add - I think they would lift the article into becoming a good biographical piece on a great poet. I'm sure JB appreciate the effort. Spanglej (talk) 22:49, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Refs

message: The image of his house in Cloth Fair, City of London, looks like a shop or store. Did he live above the shop? Was his house converted into a shop?Lestrade (talk) 14:38, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Store windows

message: "Greta, the object of his affections has remained a mystery until recently revealed."  So ... who was she? 173.16.252.154 (talk) 22:31, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Greta 

message: In the section on Betjeman's time at Oxford Maurice Bowra is inaccurately described as 'Dean' of  Wadham [College] from 1938 to 1970. In fact, Bowra was Warden (i.e. Head) of the college during that timespan. (When first appointed as a Fellow of Wadham in 1922, he was for a time Dean). I've taken the liberty of correcting this error. Norvo (talk) 22:31, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maurice Bowra 

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