Betjeman muse Joan Hunter Dunn, 92
Posted: Friday, April 18th, 2008 12:26 amLONDON — She was an innocent beauty working in the catering department of a wartime ministry. He was making government films by day and writing poems at night. …
A poem soon followed — and “A Subaltern’s Love Song” became the most popular work of John Betjeman, one of his generation’s most loved poets.Joan Hunter Dunn, the muse who inspired the classic poem of love and longing, died in a London nursing home last week at age 92. She changed her name after she married and was known as Joan Jackson.
But she will be forever associated with the poem that captured her in the first bloom of youth. … Read full obituary
