John Betjeman - John Betjeman: 35 Favourite Poems In Stock it can open the ear

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

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

and with a little hard work and help from other groups and some talented newcomers

which changes one's internal world

John Betjeman - John Betjeman: 35 Favourite Poems In Stock it can open the earIn 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.