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1920-2002
Poet, novelist and critic. Dennis Joseph Enright was born in Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, the son of a postman. He was educated at Leamington College and Downing College, Cambridge. In 1947 he accepted a teaching post at the University of Alexandria. Apart from three years spent in Birmingham in the early 1950's, most of his career was spent abroad, including Japan, Egypt and Singapore and he recalled this life in Memoirs of a mendicant professor (1969). In 1970 he returned to England to work as an editor, a director of a publishing house and accept an Honorary Professorship of Warwick University.
His first collection of poetry, The laughing hyena and other poems was published in 1953. This was followed by an anthology Poets of the 1950's (1955) which gathered together the work of contemporary poets that became known as "The Movement". His own poetry was straightforward, sometimes ironic and almost in the style of light verse, often dealing with themes of inequality.
In fiction, D.J. Enright recreated his own experiences of a British academic in a foreign country. His first novel, Academic year (1955), has been compared with the Lucky Jim of Kingsley Amis. Enright published several books for children, including the novels The joke shop (1976), Wild ghost chase (1978) and Beyond Land's End (1979).
The following works are available in the West Midlands Creative Literature Collection:-
Conspirators and poets (1966)
Daughters of the earth (1972)
A Faust book (1979)
Foreign devils
Instant chronicles; a life (1985)
The joke shop (1976)
Man is an onion; reviews and essays (1972)
Memoirs of a mendicant professor (1969)
Paradise illustrated (1978)
Rhyme times rhyme (1974)
Sad ires and others (1975)
Selected poems (1969)
Shakespeare and the students (1970)
The terrible shears (1973)
Unlawful assembly (1968)
Wild ghost chase (1978)
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