ENRIGHT, D(ENNIS) J(OSEPH)

born March 11, 1920, Leamington, Warwickshire, Eng. British poet, novelist, and teacher. After receiving a master's degree at Cambridge, he began a prolonged period of academic wandering with a lectureship in English at the University of Alexandria, Egypt (194750), followed by posts at the University of Birmingham (195053); Konan University, Japan (195356); Free University of Berlin (195657); Chulalongkorn University of Bangkok (195759); the University of Singapore (196070); and honorary professor at the University of Warwick from 1975. He was joint editor of Encounter in London (197072). Memoirs of a Mendicant Professor (1969) tells of his years abroad. Both his poetry (Selected Poems, 1969) and his novels (Academic Year, 1955; Figures of Speech, 1965) are anti-sentimental and reflect his life abroad. Later poetry is based on literary works or themes, as Paradise Illustrated (1975) and A Faust Book (1979). He also wrote fiction for children, such as Joke Shop (1976) and Wild Ghost Chase (1978). He edited The Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse 19481980 (1980).