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The Oxford Book of Death by D.J. Enright5/12/2023 ![]() On the agreed day I took an antiquated lift to the second floor, and after grappling with the gates I turned to find a pale, rumpled figure watching the proceedings with a sardonic grin. Day Lewis at Chatto, looking after the poetry list, the odd volume of lit crit, and even the occasional novel I was working as a shamefully ineffectual literary agent, and since I had somehow persuaded Chatto to take on a work by a don at Wadham, uncompromisingly entitled Genius, it was agreed that I should call in at their offices in William IV Street to meet Professor Enright and the famously ferocious Norah Smallwood, who had ruled Chatto with a rod of iron since the end of the War. He had returned to England in 1970 from Singapore, and after a couple of years as co-editor of Encounter, he had succeeded C. I first met Dennis Enright in the mid-1970s. Not one for slowing down, he finished his memoir ‘Injury Time’ the day before his death in 2002.ĭ.J. In 1981 Enright was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, and became in 1984 Poet Laureate. By 1974 he was director of publishing house Chatto and Windus. ![]() He spent the best part of twenty five years lecturing abroad in Japan, Thailand and Singapore to name but a few of the Far East countries he explored. ![]() ![]() ĭennis Joseph ‘D.J.’ Enright was a British academic, poet, novelist and critic. Enright was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in. ![]()
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