Dennis Joseph Enright (March 11, 1920 – December 31, 2002) was a British academic, poet, novelist and critic, and general man of letters. 11 March is the 70th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (71st in Leap year). ... 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... December 31 is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... An intellectual is a person who uses his or her intellect to study, reflect, and speculate on a variety of different ideas. ...

He was born in Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, and educated at Leamington College and Downing College, Cambridge. After graduating in he held academic positions outside the United Kingdom: in Egypt, Japan, Thailand and notably in Singapore (from 1960). He at times attributed his lack of success in finding a post closer to home to writing for Scrutiny and his short association with F. R. Leavis; whose influence he mainly and early, but not entirely, rejected. The Royal Pump Rooms and Baths Royal Leamington Spa, usually shortened to Leamington Spa or Leamington (pronounced Lemington) is a spa town in central Warwickshire, in England. ... Warwickshire (pronounced worrickshur or worricksheer) is a landlocked county in central England. ... Full name Downing College Motto Quaerere Verum Seek the truth Named after Sir George Downing Previous names - Established 1800 Sister College Lincoln College Master Prof. ... Frank Raymond Leavis (July 14, 1895 - April 14, 1978) was an influential British literary critic of the early-to-mid-twentieth century. ...

As a poet he was identified with the Movement. His 1955 anthology, Poets of the 1950's, served to delineate the group of British poets in question — albeit somewhat remotely and retrospectively, since he was abroad and it was not as prominent as the Robert Conquest collection New Lines of the following year. The Movement was a term coined by J. D. Scott, literary editor of the Spectator, in 1954 to describe a group of writers including Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, Donald Alfred Davie, D.J. Enright, John Wain, Elizabeth Jennings and Robert Conquest. ... Anthology may also mean a Alien Ant Farm album ANThology, see Anthology (AAF Album) An anthology is a collection of literary works, originally of poems, but in recent years its usage has broadened to be applied to collections of short stories and comic strips. ... Robert Conquest Dr. George Robert Ackworth Conquest (born July 15, 1917), British historian, became one of the best-known writers on the Soviet Union with the publication in 1968 of his classic account of Stalins purges of the 1930s, The Great Terror. ...

Returning to London in 1970, he edited Encounter magazine, with Melvin J. Lasky, for two years. He subsequently worked in publishing.

Works

• A Commentary on Goethe's Faust (1949)
• The Laughing Hyena and Other Poems (1953)
• Poets of the 1950's (1955) editor, anthology
• Academic Year (1955) novel
• The World of Dew: Aspects of Living Japan (1955)
• Bread Rather than Blossoms (1956) poems
• The Year of the Monkey (1956) poems
• The Apothecary's Shop (1957) essays
• Heaven Knows Where (1957) novel
• The Poetry of Living Japan (1958) editor with Takamichi Ninomiya
• Insufficient Poppy (1960) novel
• Robert Graves and the Decline of Modernism (1960)
• Some Men Are Brothers (1960) poems
• Addictions (1962) poems
• English Critical Texts 16th Century to 20th Century (1963) editor with Ernst de Chickera
• The Old Adam (1965)
• Conspirators and Poets (1966) essays
• Selected Poems (1968)
• Unlawful Assembly (1968) poems
• Memoirs of a Mendicant Professor (1969)
• Shakespeare And The Students (1970)
• In the Basilica of the Annunciation (1971) broadsheet poem
• Daughters of Earth (1972) poems
• Foreign Devils (1972) poems
• Man is an Onion: Reviews and Essays (1972)
• The Terrible Shears - Scenes from a Twenties Childhood (1973)
• Rhyme times rhyme (1974)
• A Choice of Milton's Verse (1975) editor
• Penguin Modern Poets 26 (1975) with Dannie Abse and Michael Longley
• Sad Ires (1975) poems
• The Joke Shop (1976) novel
• Paradise Illustrated (1978) poems
• Wild Ghost Chase (1978) novel
• A Faust Book (1979) poems
• Walking in the Harz Mountains, Faust Senses the Presence of God (1979) poem
• Beyond Land's End (1979) novel
• The Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse 1945 –1980 (1980) editor
• Collected Poems (1981)
• A Mania for Sentences: Essays on G. Grass, H. Boll, Frisch, Flaubert & Others (1983)
• Fair of Speech: The Uses of Euphemism (1985) editor
• Instant Chronicles: A Life (1985)
• The Oxford Book of Death (1985) editor
• The Alluring Problem - An Essay on Irony (1986)
• Collected Poems 1987 (1987)
• Fields of Vision: Essays on Literature, Language, and Television (1988)
• Ill at Ease: Writers on Ailments Real and Imagined (1989) editor
• The Faber Book of Fevers and Frets (1989) editor
• Oxford Book of Friendship (1991) editor with David Rawlinson
• Under the Circumstances : Poems and Prose (1991)
• The Way of The Cat (1992)
• Old Men and Comets (1993) poems
• The Oxford Book of the Supernatural (1994) editor
• Interplay: A Kind of Commonplace Book (1995)
• Collected Poems: 1948-1998 (1998)
• Telling Tales (1999)
• Play Resumed: A Journal
• Signs and Wonders: Selected Essays (2001)
• Injury Time (2002)

Dannie Abse (really Daniel Abse, born September 22, 1923) is a British poet and writer. ...

Reference

• Jaqueline Simms, editor (1990) Life By Other Means. Essays on D.J.Enright