Play Resumed by D J Enright
Fully equal to its successful predecessor, Interplay: a Kind of Commonplace Book (OUP 1995), this volume has the same breadth, the same wide range of reference, the same sharp eye for the symptomatic incident, the same revealing pronouncements. It's very funny, very serious, notable not only for its good sense, but its wisdom. The fruit of exceptionally wide reading, the quotations in Play Resumed constitute a fine miniature anthology. From religion to soap opera, computers to childhood, Enright observes keenly, sardonically, always sympathetically.
DJ.Enright's Play Resumed: A journal ... is ... always entertaining and often profound. Robert Conquest, TLS D.J. Enright is one of the outstanding writers of his generation - an admirable poet, a wise critic and much else besides ... the whole book is notable for wit and insight; it is a book to read, and it will be a book to revisit. John Gross, Sunday Telegraph He is a supremely subtle and incorrigibly humorous person of letters, who is as sharply critical of his own words and sentences as of those of others. New York Times Books Review
D. J. Enright (1920-2002), poet, novelist, and critic, was born in Royal Leamington Spa, the son of a postman. He was educated at Leamington College and Downing College, Cambridge. His first collection of poetry, The laughing hyena and other poems was published in 1953. This was followed by an
anthology Poets of the 1950s (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 Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim. Enright published several books for children, including the novels The Joke Shop (1976), Wild Ghost Chase
(1978) and Beyond Land's End (1979).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780192881083 |
| ISBN 10 | 0192881086 |
| Title | Play Resumed |
| Author | D J Enright |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1999-03-12 |
| Number of pages | 220 |
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