John Betjeman - John Betjeman: 35 Favourite Poems In Stock there's a tension in the

there's a tension in the orchestra a sense of approaching finality

born in Kiev in 1907

Lamond's affinity with the works of Beethoven was something almost spiritual

it can open the ear - and the mind - to other worlds

John Betjeman - John Betjeman: 35 Favourite Poems In Stock there's a tension in theIn a 1962 radio interview he told teenage questioners that he could not write about 'abstract things', preferring places and faces. Philip Larkin wrote of Betjeman's work, "how much more interesting & worth writing about (his) subjects are than most other modern poets, I mean, whether so and so achieves some metaphysical inner unity is not really so interesting as the overbuilding of rural Middlesex.