Showing a youthful poet quite unlike his later, confident images, Young Betjeman sets the poet among a cast which includes Evelyn Waugh, Nancy Mitford, Harold Acton, W.H. Auden and Anthony Blunt. Betjeman's unique sense of comedy, his years with the Bright Young Things and outrageous stint as a prep school master, his rapid sequence of early loves and occasional vendettas combine to make this an entertaining and enlightening biography.
Showing a youthful poet quite unlike his later, confident images, Young Betjeman sets the poet among a cast which includes Evelyn Waugh, Nancy Mitford, Harold Acton, W.H. Auden and Anthony Blunt. Betjeman's unique sense of comedy, his years with the Bright Young Things and outrageous stint as a prep school master, his rapid sequence of early loves and occasional vendettas combine to make this an entertaining and enlightening biography.