(1925–94), English writer and critic; full name John Barrington Wain. One of the Angry Young Men of the early 1950s, he was later professor of poetry at Oxford (1973–8).
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(1925–94), English writer and critic; full name John Barrington Wain. One of the Angry Young Men of the early 1950s, he was later professor of poetry at Oxford 1973–78.