A Subaltern’s Love Song
by John Betjeman
‘A Subaltern’s Love Song’ by John Betjeman is an eleven stanza poem that is divided into sets of four lines,
John Betjeman was an English poet and broadcaster. He’s remembered as a well-loved figure in the English poetry scene and served as Poet Laureate from 1972 unto his death in 1984. He started his career as a journalist and wrote witty and humorous poems that were easily accessible.
Some of John Betjeman’s most famous poems include Diary of a Church Mouse, Senex, Slough, In Westminster Abbey, and The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel.
‘A Subaltern’s Love Song’ by John Betjeman is an eleven stanza poem that is divided into sets of four lines,
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