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. He published "The Laughing Hyena," the first of 20 books of poetry, in 1953.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. He wrote four more adult novels and three for children.Įnright met his wife, French artist Madeleine Harders, in Egypt and they were married in 1949. He was a lecturer in English there until 1950, and in 1955 published his first novel, "Academic Year," set at the university. He got his masters degree at Cambridge University before taking up a teaching post at Alexandria University in Egypt in 1947. Morrison said that affection was for the artist and the man: "gentle-mannered but uncompromising, tough-minded but humane, above all funny _ a person for whom the adjective 'sardonic' was invented."ĭennis Joseph Enright was born March 11, 1920, in Leamington Spa, central England. Poet Blake Morrison, in an obituary written for The Guardian, called Enright the unsung hero of postwar British poetry and said, "it is hard to think of a poet whom other poets held in more affection."
"If anybody of his time was descended from that extinct species, the English man of letters, then it was he," The Daily Telegraph said in its obituary.
Although not the most famous of Britain's modern poets, he was greatly admired by critics, academics and his fellow poets.
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