Poets in the original " New Lines " anthology in 1956 included Kingsley Amis, Robert Conquest, Donald Davie, D . J . Enright, Thom Gunn, John Holloway, Elizabeth Jennings, Philip Larkin and John Wain.
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In Britain, it might be noted, a similar retrenchment occurred after World War II, giving rise to a host of small, gently ironic works by writers as disparate as Barbara Pym, Margaret Drabble, John Wain and Alan Sillitoe.
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Other notable contributors to literature include Elijah Fenton ( poet ), Peter Whelan ( playwright ), John Wain ( poet, critic and scholar ), Pauline Stainer ( poet ) and Charles Tomlinson ( poet, graphic artist, translator, editor and critic ).
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When the novel was translated into English by Jenia Graman and published by Random House in 1970, John Wain, the author of the introduction, described the figure behind the name Kurban Said, without naming him, as having the biographical attributes of Nussimbaum.
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They include Arthur Machen, Oliver Stonor, Edgar Jepson, Stephen Graham, Dorothy L . Sayers, J . B . Priestley, Eden Phillpotts, Stephen Potter, Martin Secker, Frank Swinnerton, John Wain, and Julian Symons and the British beat poet, Royston Ellis, who was ennobled twice.
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John Wain in his biography of Dr . Samuel Johnson writes that Johnson was taken by his mother as a small child to London, where after standing in a long line with many others, he was in turn subject to this ritual from Queen Anne.
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While in Indiana he wrote " The Movement : British Poets of the 1950s ", a critical study of nine English writers : Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, D . J . Enright, Robert Conquest, John Wain, Elizabeth Jennings, Donald Davie, Thom Gunn, and John Holloway.
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John Wain in his own autobiography " " Sprightly Running " ", recalled of the neurotic poet that he emerged from Oxford with a backward looking, almost Johnsonian determination to dig in and cherish the old values while the tide of modernism swept over him.
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The breakup of its empire heightened Britain's sense of eclipse, and in the wake of World War II, a cultural retrenchment of sorts took place, with writers as disparate as Alan Sillitoe, John Wain, Margaret Drabble and Barbara Pym turning out small, gently ironic works that eschewed grand ambitions.
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"' The Movement "'was a term coined in 1954 by J . D . Scott, literary editor of " The Spectator ", to describe a group of writers including Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, Donald Davie, D . J . Enright, John Wain, Elizabeth Jennings, Thom Gunn and Robert Conquest.
