Thank you, Holly
Re the famous line. I thought it was Betj but his publisher, Murray, denied it and in my 'Faber Book of Blue Verse' it is anonymous (and therefore free). I heard that Louis MacNeice had a hand in it, but since MacNeice and Betjeman did NOT get on, though they were up at Oxford together, I can hardly belieev this was a collaboration.
Perhaps it was a MacNeice parody. A very good one, if so.
|