the Royal poem!! Send the H[oly] G[host] to help me over that fence. So far no sign: Watch and pray."Three weeks later, during a wake for the poet WH Auden, "he told Philip Larkin that he wanted to pack in the Laureateship" according to his daughter Candida Lycett Green, who edited the collection of poems.
from Telegraph: John Betjeman hated being Poet Laureate, says Andrew Motion
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