John Betjeman - John Betjeman: 35 Favourite Poems In Stock Lamond's affinity with the works

Lamond's affinity with the works of Beethoven was something almost spiritual

it can open the ear - and the mind - to other worlds

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John Betjeman - John Betjeman: 35 Favourite Poems In Stock Lamond's affinity with the worksIn 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.