TY - BOOK AU - Hillier,Bevis AU - Betjeman,John AU - Betjeman,John TI - John Betjeman: the biography SN - 9780719564437 U1 - 821.912 BET PY - 2006/// PB - John Murray KW - Betjeman KW - Poets, English KW - 20th century KW - Biography N1 - Bibliography: p. 559-563; Includes index N2 - John Betjeman was the best-loved English poet since Tennyson and became an institution - a 'teddy bear to the nation'. This biography takes the reader from Betjeman's troubled childhood in north London, through his blossoming at Oxford; a gay fling with W H Auden; a clandestine marriage to a field marshal's daughter; and more ER -