Word: enright
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mood of the young is, by and large, activist. Significantly, Nobel prizewinning Novelist Hermann Hesse no longer exerts a strong pull on young West Germans. To them, Hesse's romantic mystique of the outsider and his preoccupation with passive Oriental philosophies has about it what British Critic D. J. Enright calls "the smell of metaphysical Lederhosen." Hesse's appeal is largely to those racked by uncertainty and disillusion, which explains his vogue on U.S. campuses and, in the early postwar period, among Germany's youth...
...fact, out of his times, a reactionary poet-clear, courtly, precise, varied in tone, passionate but restrained, using poetry as both a special ceremony and a daily occurrence. Ironically, to a great many of Britain's younger poets, among them Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, D. J. Enright and Elizabeth Jennings -sometimes collectively known as "The Movement"-Graves's old-fashioned vir tues seem highly contemporary. Writes British Critic Walter Allen: "It is as though the world has caught up with Graves so that, mysteriously, he even appears as one of the young...