Life by other means : essays on D.J. Enright / edited by Jacqueline Simms ; [contributors, John Bayley and others]

Oxford University Press

1990, 1st edition. Oxford : Oxford University Press. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #416678
ISBN: 0192129899

Physical description; xiv, 193 pages ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-190). Contents; On Academic year / Anthony Thwaite -- Enright's Japan / Russell Greenwood -- The mendicant professor : a self-confessed Liberal in Singapore / Koh Tai Ann -- Dennis Enright : a portrait / Paul Theroux -- Scenes from publishing life / Jeremy Lewis -- It is too easy for the literary man to forget : D.J. Enright as book reviewer / Derwent May -- Adding to truth : the anthologist at work / David Rawlinson -- Fandango with the professor / Gavin Young -- In and out of the movement / Blake Morrison -- The thunder of humanity : Enright's liberal imagination / Douglas Dunn -- The accents of Enright / William Walsh -- A humanist poet? / P.N. Furbank -- The Terrible Shears : more notes on nostalgia / David Ellis -- The Facts of Life : poem written on reading The Terrible Shears / Patricia Beer -- Shadow play : D.J. Enright's books for children / Naomi Lewis -- I rather like the sound of foreign languages like Ezra Pound / Peter Porter -- Those foreigners / John Bayley -- A Faust Book / Leonard Forster -- Hearing about damnation / Donald Davie -- A sense of religion : Enright's God / A.S. Byatt -- Untold stories / Shirley Chew. Subjects; Enright, D. J. (Dennis Joseph) 1920-2002. Enright, D. J. (Dennis Joseph) 1920-2002 Criticism and interpretation. Authors, English 20th century ; Biography. Critics Great Britain ; Biography.

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