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Lord David Cecil (1902-1986) was a literary critic and Oxford don - and the son of the Marquis of Salisbury, the late nineteenth-century prime minister. There's a good summary site with photos here. His full name was Edward Christian David Gascoyne-Cecil. He went to Eton and to Christchurch, Oxford, where he gained a first in…
Coat of arms of William Cecil as found in John Gerard's The herball or Generall historie of plantes (1597) William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley KG PC (13 September 1520 – 4 August 1598) was an English statesman, the chief adviser of Queen Elizabeth I for most of her reign, twice Secretary of State (1550–1553 and 1558–1572) and Lord High ...
10 de ago. de 2017 · Lord David Cecil (1902-1986) was a British biographer, academic and historian. He read Modern History at Oxford University where he later became a Fellow. He published his first book, a biography of the poet William Cowper, The Stricken Deer , in 1929; it went on to win the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Hawthornden Prize, and launched a brilliant literary career.
Truly outstanding biographies of Lord Melbourne (1799-1848) by Lord David Cecil. This (Kindle) edition is a combination of the two biographies for which Cecil is famous: The Young Melbourne and Lord M. Beautifully written, and absolutely fascinating. One of those books I'm glad I read.
Lord David Cecil (1902-86) Hardy the novelist : an essay in criticism / by David Cecil. (The Clark lectures, given at Cambridge in 1942) 1943. 19.0 x 1.5 cm ...
11 de jul. de 2014 · Lord David Cecil. A Portrait of Jane Austen. New York: Hill and Wang. 1978. Pp. 208. $19.95. - Volume 11 Issue 3
August 11, 2020. A superb book recounting the first half of the life of Charles Lamb, later Lord Melbourne, and in particular his youth among the great Whig families of 18th century London, his marriage to the lunatic Caroline Lamb, her affair with Lord Byron, and his later maturity. David Cecil is a sublime writer whose concise elegant style ...
