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John Wain Books In Order

Novels

  1. Hurry On Down (1953)
  2. The Contenders (1958)
  3. A Travelling Woman (1959)
  4. Strike the Father Dead (1962)
  5. The Young Visitors (1965)
  6. The Smaller Sky (1967)
  7. A Winter in the Hills (1970)
  8. Visit at Tea Time (1977)
  9. The Pardoner’s Tale (1978)
  10. Lizzie’s Floating Shop (1981)
  11. Young Shoulders (1982)
  12. Where the Rivers Meet (1988)
  13. Comedies (1990)
  14. Hungry Generations (1994)

Collections

  1. Death of the Hind Legs (1966)
  2. Life Guard (1971)
  3. Selected Stories of Thomas Hardy (1975)
  4. Selection (1977)
  5. King Caliban and Other Stories (1978)
  6. Poetry of Dylan Thomas (1982)
  7. Selected Stories (1989)
  8. Two Worlds of Ernst (1991)
  9. Selected Poems and Memoirs of John Wain (2000)

Chapbooks

  1. Wildtrack (1965)
  2. The Shape of Feng (1972)
  3. Feng (1975)

Plays

  1. Johnson Is Leaving (1973)
  2. Frank (1984)

Anthologies edited

  1. Anthology of Modern Poetry (1963)
  2. Personal Choice (1978)
  3. Anthology of Contemporary Poetry (1979)
  4. Everyman’s Book of English Verse (1981)
  5. The Oxford Library of English Poetry (1986)
  6. The Oxford Library of Short Novels (1990)
  7. The Oxford Anthology of English Poetry: Spenser to Crabbe (1990)
  8. The Oxford Anthology of English Poetry: Blake to Heaney (1991)

Non fiction

  1. Contemporary Reviews of Romantic Poetry (1953)
  2. Interpretations (1955)
  3. Sprightly Running (1962)
  4. Essays on Literature and Ideas (1963)
  5. The Living World of Shakespeare (1966)
  6. Arnold Bennett (1967)
  7. A House for the Truth (1972)
  8. Johnson as Critic (1973)
  9. Samuel Johnson (1974)
  10. Lives of the English Poets (1975)
  11. Johnson on Johnson (1976)
  12. Professing Poetry (1977)
  13. Edmund Wilson (1978)
  14. Modern Poetry (1982)
  15. Dear Shadows (1986)
  16. The Journals of James Boswell, 1762-1795 (1992)

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John Wain Books Overview

Comedies

In this text, Peter Leonard is unhappily married to Heather, a fact he must keep secret from his employers, the University, as a young Fellow is expected to be unmarried. His brother Brian, comes centre stage as war approaches and their world is engulfed.

The Oxford Library of Short Novels

This welcome two volume reissue of John Wain’s classic anthologies celebrates four centuries of English poetry from the Elizabethan era to the present. Beginning with the English Renaissance poet Edmund Spenser, the collection progresses through the periods of metaphysical poets such as Donne and Marvell, Augustans such as Dryden and Pope, Victorians such as Tennyson and Browning, and World War I poets such as Sassoon and W.H. Auden. In addition, the anthology includes the works of contemporary poets, featuring Seamus Heaney, Anne Stevenson, Peter Levi, and Ted Hughes, among many others. The result is a rich and varied portrait of the poetry of the ages comic and dramatic, conventional and unconventional that is enhanced by works of the less well known poets. A beautiful record of Britain and Ireland’s verbal heritage, this work will delight all poetry lovers.

The Oxford Anthology of English Poetry: Spenser to Crabbe

This welcome two volume reissue of John Wain’s classic anthologies celebrates four centuries of English poetry from the Elizabethan era to the present. Beginning with the English Renaissance poet Edmund Spenser, the collection progresses through the periods of metaphysical poets such as Donne and Marvell, Augustans such as Dryden and Pope, Victorians such as Tennyson and Browning, and World War I poets such as Sassoon and W.H. Auden. In addition, the anthology includes the works of contemporary poets, featuring Seamus Heaney, Anne Stevenson, Peter Levi, and Ted Hughes, among many others. The result is a rich and varied portrait of the poetry of the ages comic and dramatic, conventional and unconventional that is enhanced by works of the less well known poets. A beautiful record of Britain and Ireland’s verbal heritage, this work will delight all poetry lovers.

The Oxford Anthology of English Poetry: Blake to Heaney

This two volume anthology celebrates four centuries of English poetry, from the Elizabethan era to the present day. This, the second of the two volumes, covers poets from Blake to Heaney, and provides an excellent portrayal of a wide variety of eighteenth to twentieth century poets.
The richness and variety of this tradition are represented in this collection by all the great and familiar names, but also some of the less well known poets who have often provided startling exceptions to the poetry of their age. The result is a rich and multi coloured tapestry of the depth, diversity, and energy of poetry written in Britain and Ireland.
Beginning with William Blake, this second volume, covers many of the Romantic poets Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Keats. It gives a generous survey of nineteenth century verse, including that of Tennyson, Browning, Hopkins, and Lewis Carroll, with poets from the twentieth century being represented by poets such as Graves, Betjeman, Larking, Hughes, and Heaney.

Samuel Johnson

This biography, first published in 1974 and reissued with a new preface by the author, is about every aspect of Samuel Johnson: a discussion of ideas, a criticism of his writing, an historical placing of the man within the social and intellectual landscape of his day.

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