"Camp"? Oh, come on. Not Uhmerican "camp" anyway. Youse guys splat the label "camp" on something and think you've said something intelligible. Might be true sometimes, but not here. Betjeman was various things, but not yet "camp". Rather more just himself, chumbly as he was. I actually like him a bit, primarily for his skill and comfortableness (which, as we can now see, is streng verboten in "art" these sad days). I once had a British acquaintance (he's now moth-eaten and mentally gone to seed, I fear, drinking lonely acidulous screwdrivers in his thatchy home), who loved Betjeman but who wrote truly terrible prosaic free verse, and somehow didn't allow there was a difference between them except in level of technique.
Betjeman: Not as good by far as Kingsley Amis at his best, but good enough.
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