#Betjeman

[dk-thrive]

His interests are broad: music, theatre, poetry. His favourite poets – Betjeman, AE Housman, Yeats – regularly make him cry. “I don’t cry over somebody dying,” he said. “But I cry over a beautifully turned phrase.”

— Sophie Elmhirst, from "Is Richard Dawkins Destroying His Reputation" (The Guardian, Tuesday June 9, 2015)

#Richard Dawkins #poet #poetry #Betjeman #AE Housman #william butler yeats #write #writer #writing

[apoemaday]

In a Bath Teashop

by John Betjeman

“Let us not speak, for the love we bear one another -- Let us hold hands and look.” She, such a very ordinary little woman; He, such a thumping crook; But both, for a moment, little lower than the angels In the teashop’s ingle-nook.

#poetry #john betjeman #in a bath teashop #a personal favorite

[dadsinsuits]

John Betjeman

#suitdaddy #suiteddaddy #suit and tie #suited daddy #men in suits #daddy #suited grandpa #suitedman #silverfox #suit daddy #suitfetish #three piece suit #suited men #buisness suit #suited man #suitedmen #british man #british men #poet laureate #John Betjeman

[cyhsal]

Beyond Metro-Land 🛤️

A study from the film Metro-Land (1973)! Painting timelapse on IG and Twitter — links below.

Instagram // Twitter // Threads // VK // ArtStation // Mastodon

#artists on tumblr #illustration #digital illustration #digital art #digital painting #john betjeman #metroland #landscape #countryside #landscape aesthetic #landscape painting #procreate #naturecore #john constable #cyhsal

[kiki-de-la-petite-flaque]

Let us not speak, for the love we bear one another— Let us hold hands and look.’ She such a very ordinary little woman; He such a thumping crook; But both, for a moment, little lower than the angels In the teashop's ingle-nook.”

–John Betjeman, "In A Bath Teashop

#John Betjeman

[lisamarie-vee]

#joe orton #john betjeman #collage #mixed media #book cover #islington local history centre

[thesquireinvictus]

Maggie Smith and Kenneth Williams read the lovely John Betjeman’s 'Death in Leamington'.

#lit #Maggie Smith #Kenneth Williams #John Betjeman #Death in Leamington

[nicethingsthose]

On a Portrait of a Deaf Man

The kind old face, the egg-shaped head, The tie, discretely loud, The loosely fitting shooting clothes, A closely fitting shroud. He liked old city dining rooms, Potatoes in their skin, But now his mouth is wide to let The London clay come in. He took me on long silent walks In country lanes when young. He knew the names of ev'ry bird But not the song it sung. And when he could not hear me speak He smiled and looked so wise That now I do not like to think Of maggots in his eyes. He liked the rain-washed Cornish air And smell of ploughed-up soil, He liked a landscape big and bare And painted it in oil. But least of all he liked that place Which hangs on Highgate Hill Of soaked Carrara-covered earth For Londoners to fill. He would have liked to say goodbye, Shake hands with many friends, In Highgate now his finger-bones Stick through his finger-ends. You, God, who treat him thus and thus, Say "Save his soul and pray." You ask me to believe You and I only see decay.

- John Betjeman

#Literature #Poetry #John Betjeman

[fuckyeahpetercook]

From the December 2022 issue of The Oldie! Actress Madeline Smith reminisces about working with her teen crush - "dear, silly Peter" - in the segment for poet John Betjeman's Seaside Golf, in 1980's Betjeman's Britain. An affectionate recounting.

#peter cook #betjeman's britain #madeline smith #1980s #john betjeman

[peasonearthh]

In a Bath Teashop 🍵📚

Let us not speak, for the love we bear one another—

Let us hold hands and look.

She such a very ordinary little woman;

He such a thumping crook;

But both, for a moment, little lower than the angels

In the teashop's ingle-nook.

#John Betjeman #poetry

[thefollyflaneuse]

The Pigeon Cote, Kirkleatham, North Yorkshire

In 1934 a local paper published a ‘Cleveland Ramble’ featuring a walk around Kirkleatham village. The author looked across the park to the ‘elaborate castellated pigeon-cote’ which was described as a ‘startling example’ of the extravagant ‘pseudo Gothic craze’ of the later 18th century. Only a couple of decades after this account was published the castellations were gone, and the pigeon cote was…

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#Cleveland #john betjeman #John Piper #Kirkleatham #Kirkleatham Hall #Kirkleatham Walled garden #Peter Burton #Turner Mausoleum #Turner of Kirkleatham #Turner&039;s Hospital

[slack-wise]

Melbourne - Cheltenham in the jungle.

John Betjeman (via Barry Humphries)

#John Betjeman #Barry Humphries #quotes #texts #funny #lol

[ronnydeschepper]

Bruce Chatwin (1940-1989)

Het is al 35 jaar geleden dat “de Engelse Boudewijn Büch” Bruce Chatwin is overleden. Continue reading Untitled

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#André Malraux #Boudewijn Büch #Bruce Chatwin #Eileen Gray #John Betjeman #Nicholas Shakespeare #Paul Theroux #Robert Mapplethorpe #Salman Rushdie

[bentothuglife]

There's an incredible scene in s6 of The Crown where Princess Margaret is at a party and she tells a crowd of people "John Betjeman was so obsessed with me his friend Maurice Bowra wrote this poem about it" and then she recites it, and god I hope this was actually one of her party pieces irl because king shit

Green with lust and sick with shyness, Let me lick your lacquered toes. Gosh, oh gosh, your Royal Highness, Put your finger up my nose, Pin my teeth upon your dress, Plant my head with watercress. Only you can make me happy. Tuck me tight beneath your arm. Wrap me in a woollen nappy; Let me wet it till it's warm. In a plush and plated pram Wheel me round St James's, Ma'am. Let your sleek and soft galoshes Slide and slither on my skin. Swaddle me in mackintoshes Till I lose my sense of sin. Lightly plant your plimsolled heel Where my privy parts congeal.

#this is a level of shit-talking your friend few mere mortals have achieved #i do really hope this was a real habit of hers #Maurice bowra #john Betjeman #princess Margaret

[frimleyblogger]

London’s Eiffel Tower

A rival to the #EiffelTower in #Paris was planned to be built on a marshy site in #Wembley

The twin towers of Wembley Stadium were an iconic symbol of English football until they were demolished in 2003 but Wembley Park would have boasted an even more impressive structure had the ambitions of railway entrepreneur and Liberal Unionist MP, Sir Edward Watkin, come to fruition. Irked by the rapturous acclaim that had greeted the opening of the Eiffel Tower, the world’s tallest structure,…

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#Eiffel Tower #Freeman’s Journal #Metro-Land #Metropolitan Railway #Sir Edward Watkin #Sir John Betjeman #Watkin’s Folly

[bogusfilth]

housman’s command of meter is as rigorous and expert as his classical scholarship was purported to be but auden’s is virtuosic to the point of frustration. which is to say that housman is able to write words in perfect uninterrupted common metre or what have you, but auden is able to write seemingly unstructured almost prosaic sentences that have an incredible rhythmic quality, flowing effortless onwards or to suddenly dropping out at precisely the right moment. “lay your sleeping head my love//human on my faithless arm;” , “an artificial wilderness//and a sky like lead.” larkin is comparable in tone but is halting, which is appropriate - “a hedgehog jammed up against the blades//killed. it had been in the long grass” - it fits his anxious and regretful subject matter. but it’s not as impressive as auden’s ability to drawl casually about the beautiful, to reduce you to tears without even really seeming to notice.

#this is not supposed to be exhaustive by any means or any sort of a deep cut #we're not even going to go in to betjeman and his ability to make the domestic and almost trite be compelling #which is again in no small part a metric achievement