John Wain Archive 1947-1994

Wain John Barrington 1925-1994

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John Barrington Wain

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The author John Barrington Wain, 1925-1994, was Professor of Poetry at University of Oxford, 1973-78. He was born in Stoke-on-Trent and educated at the High School, Newcastle-under-Lyme, and then St John's College, Oxford, where he became Fereday Fellow, 1946-49. He was a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Reading, 1947-55, and on resignation became a freelance author and critic. Like contemporary figures, Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, and John Braine, Wain began publishing just...