'Rebels and eccentrics, down-and-outers and hard drinkers'

Former secret government papers have laid bare astonishing behind-the-scenes sniping about the country’s greatest poets. Queen Elizabeth’s advisers canvassed opinion from the top minds in British verse before the late monarch appointed Sir John Betjeman Poet Laureate in 1972. But then-Tory Prime

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