In 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.
11 Song of a Night-Club Proprietress (Aka 'Sun & Fun')
12 The Licorice Fields at Pontefract
13 Our Padre
14 Indoor Games Near Newbury
15 How to Get on in Society
16 Late Flowering Lust
17 Middlesex
18 Harrow-On-The-Hill
19 Trebetherick
20 The Arrest of Oscar Wilde
21 In Memoriam Walter Ramsden
22 Devonshire Street, W.1
23 In a Bath Teashop
24 To My Son Aged Eight
25 On a Portrait of a Deaf Man
26 Death at Leamington Read
27 Christmas
In 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.
