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John Betjeman (1906-1984) was a English poet and essayist, originator of a peculiarly English light verse, nostalgic and delighting in Victorian and Edwardian architecture.

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His Collected Poems appeared in 1968 and a verse autobiography Summoned by Bells in 1960. He was knighted in 1969 and became poet laureate in 1972.

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