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John Barrington Wain ( 14 March , 1925 – 24 May , 1994 ) was a British poet, anthologist and journalist. Sourced The lesson is that dying men must groan; And poets groan in rhymes that please the ear. Poem Don't let's spoil it all, I thought that we...


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Name: John Wain
Birth Date: 14 March 1925

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Biography of John (Barrington) Wain
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[This entry was updated by Dean Baldwin (Pennsylvania State University--Erie) from the entry by Augustus M. Kolich (Pennsylvania State University) in DLB 15: British Novelists, 1930-1959, the entry by A. T. Tolley (Carleton University) in DLB 27: Poets...
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Biography of John (Barrington) Wain
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Perhaps best known as a prolific novelist and poet, John Wain also gained acclaim as a critic and, within the last two decades, as a literary biographer. Wain's first volume of poetry, Mixed Feelings: Nineteen Poems (1951), was "the conventional...
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Biography of John (Barrington) Wain
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John Wain has achieved fame as a novelist, poet, critic, biographer, and short-story writer--in short, as a modern man of letters. Like his contemporaries Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, and John Braine, Wain came of age just before World War II and...
 


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John Wain (born John Barrington Wain, March 14, 1925 – May 24, 1994) was an English poet, novelist, and critic, associated with the literary group The Movement. For most of his life, Wain worked as a freelance journalist and author, writing and...


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The Boston Globe
Dr. Hans Waine, 92 Noted Rheumatologist
12/19/1999: 295 words, approx. 1 pages
Dr. Hans Waine of South Hadley, a rheumatologist, died Dec. 5 at a rehabilitation center in Stamford, Conn. He was 92. Dr. Waine was a former resident of Beacon Hill, West Newton, and South Dartmouth. He was born in Hagen, Germany. He earned...
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The Washington Post
Rubles for John-John
07/21/1999: 806 words, approx. 3 pages
The day when President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas was unforgettable for everybody, including me. On that particular day I was on duty in Izvestia in my capacity as an acting foreign editor of this official Soviet government newspaper. The horrible news came too...


Criticism and Essays
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Critical Essay by Lawrence R. Ries
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The proper place to begin a study of Wain's poetry is with the examination of his basic premise: human goodness and love shall outlast violence and brutality. He is willing to admit to man's instinctive selfishness …, but human interaction ultimately transcends and overcomes petty individual inadequacies. Wain traces the source of the violence in the world to mechanization, industrialization, and the consequent dehumanization of modern society. Western civilization, he says, no longer b...
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Critical Essay by Ben Howard
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Wain is a poet of large ambitions. His early enthusiasm for the Augustan poets has left its mark on his work, not least in his hankering to make "major statements" and execute grand designs. About eight years ago in his Letters to Five Artists Wain employed Pope's favorite form in a wide-ranging exploration of the creative process. More recently he has been inclined to compete with the statements of major English writers; or rather, to place his personal imprint upon familiar materials....
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Critical Essay by Julian Moynahan
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John Wain and Kingsley Amis, whose first novels, "Hurry on Down" and "Lucky Jim," came out the same year, 1953, formed the most considerable part of the not particularly well-named Angry Young Man group in postwar English letters…. [Both] have been quite versatile and complete writers in that they write excellent poetry and criticism along with their novels and short stories. (p. 14) [But they] are really very different sorts of writer. Mr. Amis's talent is comic an...
 


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