![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Leavis whose influence he mainly and early, but not entirely, rejected.Īs a poet he was identified with the Movement. 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. After graduating he held a number of academic posts outside the United Kingdom: in Egypt, Japan, Thailand and notably in Singapore (from 1960). He was educated at Leamington College and Downing College, Cambridge. Enright stated in his poem "Anglo-Irish" that his "father claimed to be descended from a king called Brian Boru, an ancient hero of Ireland." but his "mother said that all Irishmen claimed descent from kings but the truth was they were Catholics." His early life was characterised by poverty, the loss of his father, and relationship with his "overworked mother". as the result of the premature death of his father, a Fenian" - and Welsh chapel-goer mother Grace (née Cleaver) he wrote about his "working-class, Black Country upbringing". Life Įnright was born in Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, to Irish postman father George Enright - a former soldier, "obliged in early life to enlist. He authored Academic Year (1955), Memoirs of a Mendicant Professor (1969) and a wide range of essays, reviews, anthologies, children's books and poems. Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdomĭennis Joseph Enright OBE FRSL (11 March 1920 – 31 December 2002) was a British academic, poet, novelist and critic. ![]()
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