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John Angry Young Men Group Writers 1950s Irreverence

Front Angry Young Men
Back a group of writers of 1950s
irreverence, stridency, impatience with tradition, vigour, vulgarity, sulky resentment against the cultivated
post war reforms
Colin Wilson's study of alienation, the Outsider 1956 was judged by many an important manifesto
John Osborne's look back in anger 1956
John Wain's Hurry on Down 1953
Kingsley Amis Lucky Jim 1954
John Braine Room at the Top 1957
Alan Sillitoe's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 1958

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