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John Wain
(1925 - 1994)
John Wain was bom in Staffordshire and educated at Newcastle 
High School and the Oxford University. From 1946 to 1949 he 
was a Fellow of St. John’s College, Oxford, and then a lecturer in 
English literature at Reading University, Berkshire.
John Wain’s first novel “Hurry on Down” was published in 
1953 and the literary critics immediately placed his name at the 
top o f the list “Angry Young Men” group. The novel portrays a

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young man who has just left University. He tries to find his proper 
place in life but fails. His feeling o f being a displaced person 
runs through the whole novel.
Wain’s criticism of contemporary life becomes increasingly 
serious with the further progress ofhis literary career. In his novels 
he describes the difficulty of survival in the modern world if one 
wants to preserve his real self in intrusive and demanding sur­
roundings. Wain’s other novels include “ Living in the Present” 
(1955), “The Contenders” (1958), “A Travel ling Woman” (1959), 
“Strike the Father Dead” (1962), “The Young Visitors” (1965), 
“The Smaller Sky” (1967), “A Winter in the Hills” (1970), “The 
Pardoner’s Tale” (1978), “Lizzie’s Floating Shop” (1981), “Young 
Shoulders” (1982).
John Wain is also a distinguished poet and literary critic. 
He published several volumes o f verse including “Mixed Feel­
ings” (1951), “A Word Carved on a Sill” (1956), “Weep Before 
God” (1961), “Wildtrack” (1965) and “Poems 1949-1979” .
Ted Hughes
(1930-1998)
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Ted Hughes is known chiefly for his portrayal ofthe violence 
and fierce beauty of the natural world. He was bom in Yorkshire.

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He took a degree at Cambridge, where he was primarily interested 
in folklore and anthropology. In 1956 he married an American 
poet, the late Sylvia Plath. His first book o f poetry “The Hawk in 
the Rain” appeared in 1957.
Much o f Ted Hughes poetry deals with the natural world. He 
frequently writes of the savagery and cunning of animals and of 
similarqualities in human beings. It is characteristic of Hughes’s 
verse to use plants, objects or animals as symbols of some larger 
general concept. His creatures are powerful and watchful. Like 
Aesop, Hughes portrays animals in terms that carry messages 
about human nature. But his messages are seldom moralistic or 
reassuring. His works show a variety o f influences: folklore, 
mythology, anthropology, as well as the poetry o f Thomas Hardy,
D.H Lawrence, and Robert Graves.
Hughes’s second book o f poetry, “Lupercal”, won England’s 
prestigious Hawthomden Prize in 1961. “Wodwo”., a compilation 
o f both poetiy and prose, including short stories and a radio play, 
was published in 1967.
Here, below, is one of the poems included into Ted Hughes’s 
“Wodwo”, which shows the poet’s keen observation o f nature 
and natural processes:
F irn
Here is the firn’s frond, unfurling a gesture 
Like a conductor whose music will now be pause 
And the one note o f silence 
To which the whole earth dances gravely.
The mouse’s ear unfurls its trust,
The spider takes up her bequest,
And the retina
Rains the creation with a bridle of water.
And, among them, the fem
Dances gravely, like the plume
.Of a warrior returning, under the law hills,
Into his own kingdom.

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In 1970 a cycle of poems “Crow” came into being and became 
a best-seller. In it Hughes attempts to create a fragmentary 
mythology. In addition to verse, Hughes has written a number of 
plays and several books for children.
Some critics have attacked Hughes for the grimness o f his 
poetic subject matter and the violence o f his language, but his 
admirers contend, that his language is vibrant and passionate, 
and that his recognition of violence in ms.n and nature is a valid 
perception.
In 1984 Hughes was appointed a poet laureate.