Topic: Maurice Bowra

Wrong belfry

From Henry Hardy Sir: Paul Johnson ('And Another Thing', 22 October) reports that Maurice Bowra's indecent satirical verses were recently published in the TLS. What appeared there was just one poem of 50, a taster for the book of the satires ...

Betjeman's world of trains and buttered toast

I am sitting in the London Library as I write this. 'Newbolt has suffered amongst literary men because he has never been hard to understand.' In his excellent introduction to Trains and Buttered Toast, a selection from Betjeman's 300 radio talks ...