D.J. Enright

D.J. Enright was a poet, novelist and academic. He taught for many years in universities in South-East Asia. He died in December 2002.

In the LRB Archive:

• How to Kowtow on the thoughts of China · 29 July 1999

  • The Chain’s Great Continent: China in Western Minds by Jonathan Spence

• The German Ocean: Suffolk Blues · 17 September 1998

  • The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald, translated by Michael Hulse

• Great psychotherapists require great patients · 7 April 1994

  • A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud and Sabina Spielrein by John Kerr

• Poem: ‘Caligula on the subject of names’ · 2 December 1993

• The Land of Serendipity · 23 September 1993

  • The True Paradise by Gamini Salgado

• Poem: ‘Supervision’ · 19 August 1993

• Poem: ‘First words, last chances’ · 13 May 1993

• Running Dogs · 13 May 1993

  • Red Sorghum by Mo Yan, translated by Howard Goldblatt

• The Conversation · 25 March 1993

  • On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored by Adam Phillips

• Poem: ‘Seasons’ · 5 November 1992

• Stuck in the slot · 8 October 1992

  • The Collected Stories by John McGahern

• One blushes to admit it · 11 June 1992

  • The Heart of Europe: Essays on Literature and Ideology by J.P. Stern

• Holy Grails, Promised Lands · 9 April 1992

  • Proofs and Three Parables by George Steiner

• Just going outside · 30 January 1992

  • The Birthday Boys by Beryl Bainbridge

• Poem: ‘Saving the world’ · 19 December 1991

• Poem: ‘In the street’ · 7 November 1991

• Two Poems · 12 September 1991

• As deadly as the male · 12 September 1991

  • Women Who Kill by Ann Jones

• Showing the sights · 15 August 1991

  • The New Oxford Book of 16th-Century Verse edited by Emrys Jones

• Much to be endured · 27 June 1991

  • Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient by John Wiltshire

• Can rebels be happy? · 23 May 1991

  • Self-Portrait of the Other: A Memoir by Heberto Padilla, translated by Alexander Coleman

• A heart with testicles · 9 May 1991

  • Goethe: The Poet and the Age. Vol. I: The Poetry of Desire, 1749-1790 by Nicholas Boyle

• Swift radiant morning · 21 February 1991

  • The Collected Letters of Charles Hamilton Sorley edited by Jean Moorcroft Wilson
  • Ivor Gurney: Collected Letters edited by R.K.R Thornton

• Two Poems · 27 September 1990

• Knowledge Infinite · 16 August 1990

  • The Don Giovanni Book: Myths of Seduction and Betrayal edited by Jonathan Miller

• Must the grasshopper be a burden? · 12 July 1990

  • I don’t feel old: The Experience of Later Life by Paul Thompson, Catherine Itzin and Michele Abendstern

• The Honour of Defeat · 3 December 1981

  • The Life of Villiers de I’Isle-Adam by A.W. Raitt

• Poem: ‘Natural Species’ · 6 August 1981

• Chinese Whispers · 18 June 1981

  • The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
  • China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston

• Tribal Lays · 7 May 1981

  • The Hill Station by J.G. Farrell

• Poem: ‘Explanation’ · 5 March 1981

• Poem: ‘Burden’ · 6 November 1980

• Lost Empire · 16 October 1980

  • Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess

• Juliet · 18 September 1980

  • Flaubert and an English Governess by Hermia Oliver
  • The Letters of Gustave Flaubert 1830-1857 edited and translated by Francis Steegmuller

• D.J. Enright is soon to bring out his ‘Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse 1945-1980’. Here is the substance of his introductory statement · 15 May 1980

• A Writer’s Fancy · 21 February 1980

  • Hackenfeller’s Ape Flesh The Snow Ball by Brigid Brophy

• Live Entertainment · 6 December 1979

  • The Storyteller by Alan Sillitoe

• McGahern’s Ireland · 8 November 1979

  • The Pornographer by John McGahern

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