Angry Young Men

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Angry Young Men Loose literary and dramatic term, applied to an anti-establishment group of British writers in the 1950s. Taken from Leslie Allen Paul's autobiography Angry Young Man (1951), it was popularized through John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger (1956). The group included Kingsley Amis, Arnold Wesker and Alan Sillitoe.

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