Life by other means : essays on D.J. Enright
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Life by other means : essays on D.J. Enright
Oxford University Press, 1990
Available at 10 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This collection of 22 essays celebrates the 70th birthday of the well-known poet, critic and novelist D.J. Enright. Blending personal memoir with critical analysis, this is a study of the liberal, humanist writer whose work as Professor of English took him to Japan, Alexandria, and finally, Singapore. Amongst the contributors are: Paul Theroux, Derwent May, Douglas Dunn, Naomi Lewis, A.S.Byatt, P.N.Furbank and Peter Porter.
Table of 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.
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