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
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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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