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John Wain (1925–1994)

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Werke von John Wain

Samuel Johnson (1975) — Autor — 349 Exemplare
Hurry on Down (1953) 168 Exemplare
The Oxford Library of English Poetry {complete} (1986) — Herausgeber — 124 Exemplare
The Oxford Anthology of Great English Poetry {complete} (1990) — Herausgeber — 69 Exemplare
The Contenders (1900) 56 Exemplare
A Winter in the Hills (1970) 46 Exemplare
The Oxford Library of Short Novels {complete} (1990) — Herausgeber — 44 Exemplare
Strike the Father Dead (1962) 42 Exemplare
Shakespeare: Othello (1971) 38 Exemplare
A Travelling Woman (1959) 34 Exemplare
The Smaller Sky (1967) 28 Exemplare
Professing Poetry (1977) 24 Exemplare
The Young Visitors (1965) 24 Exemplare
Young Shoulders (1982) 23 Exemplare
Pope (Laurel Poetry Series) (1963) — Herausgeber — 23 Exemplare
The Pardoner's Tale (1978) 21 Exemplare
Nuncle and Other Stories (1960) 18 Exemplare
Living in the Present (1960) 15 Exemplare
Cocktails & Mixed Drinks (1988) 13 Exemplare
Where the Rivers Meet (1988) 12 Exemplare
House for the Truth (1972) 9 Exemplare
Comedies (1990) 8 Exemplare
Anthology of Modern Poetry (1963) 7 Exemplare
Life Guard (1971) 7 Exemplare
A word carved on a sill (1956) 6 Exemplare
Wildtrack: A Poem (1965) 6 Exemplare
Poems 1949-1979 (1980) 6 Exemplare
Letters to Five Artists (1969) 6 Exemplare
Feng : a poem (1975) 6 Exemplare
Weep Before God: Poems (1961) 5 Exemplare
Preliminary Essays 5 Exemplare
Essays on Literature and Ideas (1963) 5 Exemplare
An Edmund Wilson celebration (1978) 5 Exemplare
Open Country (1987) 3 Exemplare
Free Zone Starts Here (1984) 2 Exemplare
Frank (1984) 2 Exemplare
Hungry generations (1994) 2 Exemplare
Thinking About Mr. Person (1993) 2 Exemplare
Contenders 1 Exemplar
Good Morning Blues 1 Exemplar
Los Rivales 1 Exemplar
A John Wain Selection (1977) 1 Exemplar

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The Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse (1950) — Mitwirkender, einige Ausgaben264 Exemplare
The Dynasts (0001) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben137 Exemplare
Selected Shorter Poems (1966) — Compiler — 120 Exemplare
Journal (1991) — Herausgeber — 86 Exemplare
The Best American Essays 1986 (1986) — Mitwirkender — 70 Exemplare
Selected Stories of Thomas Hardy (1966) — Herausgeber — 53 Exemplare
The New Wessex Selection of Thomas Hardy's Poetry (1900) — Herausgeber — 33 Exemplare
Fanny Burney's Diary (1961) — Herausgeber — 33 Exemplare
A. E. Housman: A Collection of Critical Essays (1968) — Mitwirkender — 22 Exemplare
EVERGREEN REVIEW: VOL. 3, NO. 9: SUMMER 1959 (1959) — Mitwirkender — 12 Exemplare
Oxford and Oxfordshire in Verse (1982) — Mitwirkender — 11 Exemplare
Triquarterly 19 (Fall 1970) For Edward Dahlberg (1970) — Mitwirkender — 4 Exemplare
Vader is de beste — Autor — 3 Exemplare
New World Writing - Number 12 (1957) — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare
Stories of Adolescence (1979) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar

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Rechtmäßiger Name
Wain, John Barrington
Geburtstag
1925-03-14
Todestag
1994-05-24
Geschlecht
male
Nationalität
UK
Land (für Karte)
England, UK
Geburtsort
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK
Sterbeort
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Wohnorte
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, UK (birth)
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK (death)
Ausbildung
High School, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Oxford University (St. John's College)
Berufe
Professor (Lyrik ∙ Oxford)
Lektor (English ∙ Reading University)
Journalist
Preise und Auszeichnungen
CBE in 1984
Kurzbiographie
Wain was born and grew up in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, the son of a dentist, Arnold Wain, and his wife Annie, née Turner. He had an older sister and a younger brother, Noel. After attending Newcastle under Lyme High School, he entered St. John's College, Oxford, gaining a first in his BA in 1946 and MA in 1950. He was a Fereday Fellow of St John's between 1946 and 1949.[1] On 4 July 1947, Wain married Marianne Uffenheimer (b. 1923 or 1924), but they divorced in 1956. Wain then married Eirian Mary James (1920–1988), deputy director of the recorded sound department of the British Council, on 1 January 1960. They had three sons and lived mainly in Wolvercote, Oxford. Wain married his third wife, Patricia Adams (born 1942 or 1943), an art teacher, in 1989. Wain taught at the University of Reading during the late 1940s and early 1950s, and in 1963 spent a term as professor of rhetoric at Gresham College, London. He was the first fellow in creative arts at Brasenose College, Oxford (1971–1972), and was appointed a supernumerary fellow in 1973. In that same year, he was elected to the five-year post of Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford: some of his lectures are collected in his book Professing Poetry. Wain was appointed a CBE in 1984. He was made an honorary fellow of his old college, St John's, Oxford, in 1985. He died inOxford on 24 May 1994.

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This was a festival promoted by the Poetry Book Society in association with the Arts Council of Great Britain. Copy once owned by Rosemary Tonks, London NW3
 
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jon1lambert | Sep 4, 2023 |
A good story about what happens when an individual doesn't follow the unspoken dictates of society, but John, why would you give your protagonist the last name Geary and then refer to him by that the entire book? Surely you knew the similarity to the first name Gary would grate on the reader?
 
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judeprufrock | 2 weitere Rezensionen | Jul 4, 2023 |
Humoristický román o muži, který se po ukončení vysoké školy rozhodne hledat své místo v životě a ve společnosti jinak, než odpovídá zažitým způsobům. Při tom se setkává s lidmi různých sociálních skupin a zažívá mnohdy nelehké, leč ve své podstatě komické, situace. (Založil/a: Jezinka)
 
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stpetr | 2 weitere Rezensionen | Apr 13, 2020 |
Worth the read for the device of a novel inter-woven with another story about the novelist writing the novel.
Like many of John Wain stories, he never seems to introduce believable women into them.
 
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