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Lord Edward Christian David Gascoyne-Cecil, CH (9 April 1902 – 1 January 1986) was a British biographer, historian, and scholar. He held the style of "Lord" by courtesy as a younger son of a marquess.
Lord David Cecil (born April 9, 1902, London, Eng.—died Jan. 1, 1986, Cranborne, Dorset) was an English biographer, literary critic, and educator, best known for his discerning, sympathetic, and elegantly written studies of many literary figures.
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4 gen 1986 · Lord David Cecil, a prominent British literary historian and biographer, died Wednesday at the age of 83. Best known for his biography of Lord Melbourne, Queen Victoria's earliest...
24 ott 2020 · Biografo e critico inglese nato a Londra il 9 aprile 1902, figlio del 4° marchese di Salisbury, già Lord del Sigillo privato. Compì gli studî a Oxford. Le sue prime opere importanti sono nel campo della biografia, con The Stricken Deer (1929), vita di William Cowper, e Sir Walter Scott (1933).
Professor of English at Oxford University, LORD DAVID CECIL is a scholar, critic, and biographer of exceptional quality. His study of Couper, The Stricken Deer (1929), his volume on...
Londra. Biografo e critico inglese (Londra 1902 - ivi 1986); dal 1948 prof. di lett. inglese a Goldsmith, Oxford. È autore di biografie (di William Cowp...
In ‘The Fine Art of Reading’, his 1949 inaugural lecture as Goldsmiths’ Professor of English Literature at Oxford, New College Fellow, Lord David Cecil, wrote: “There are as many different kinds of good books as there are different kinds of good writer. Each has something to give us.”
