2. Angry Young Men A phrase loosely applied to a number of British playwrights and novelists from the mid-1950s, whose political views were radical or anarchic, and who described various forms of social alienation R It is sometimes said to derive from the title of a work by the Irish writer Leslie Paul Angry Young Man(1951) John Osborne: Look Back in Anger (1956);185 2021/2/232021/2/23 6 2. Angry Young Men A phrase loosely applied to a number of British playwrights and novelists from the mid-1950s,whose political views were radical or anarchic, and who described various forms of social alienation. It is sometimes said to derive from the title of a work by the Irish writer Leslie Paul, Angry Young Man (1951). John Osborne: Look Back in Anger (1956);