Lord David Cecil

Edward Christian David Gascoyne - Cecil, Lord Cecil CH ( born April 9, 1902 in Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, England; † 1 January 1986 Cranborne, Dorset, England ) was a British university teacher and writer who for his under the title The stricken Deer: or The Life of Cowper published biography of William Cowper 1929 Hawthornden prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize was awarded.

Life

Lord David Cecil came from the family of Cecil, one of the most noble families of England and was a descendant of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley and his son Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, both leading statesmen during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. were. His grandfather, Robert Gascoyne - Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury was Prime Minister and Foreign Minister on several occasions, while his father James Gascoyne - Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Lord President of the Council and Lord Privy Seal was. His older brother Robert Gascoyne - Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury was also Lord Privy Seal and Lord President of the Council, while his older sister Mary Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, not only governess ( Mistress of the Robes ) by Queen Elizabeth II, but also Chancellor of the University of Exeter.

After attending Eton College, he studied at Christ Church, University of Oxford, and was after graduation 1924-1930 Fellow at the city's Wadham College. Already during the tenure there, he wrote under the title The Stricken Deer: or The Life of Cowper in 1929 published a biography of the poet William Cowper, for which he received the 1929 Hawthornden Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In the 1930s he was a member of the Inklings, a literary discussion group christian embossed men who trained at the University of Oxford to the lecturer and writer CS Lewis.

Between 1939 and 1969 he was a Fellow at New College, Oxford University and was then Honorary Fellow. He also took the first in 1947 became professor of rhetoric at Gresham College, but changed in 1948 as a professor of English literature at the University of Oxford and taught there until 1970.

However, his most important work was published in 1978 biography of Jane Austen, titled A Portrait of Jane Austen. As a writer and biographer joined Lord Cecil scholarly accuracy with the elegance of the style of language and was widely recognized for his instinctive feeling for the one marked by the urban style of storytelling. By avoiding the complex and abstract, he kept his work always close to the action and in relation to the characters involved, so its not necessarily original works were always fresh and readable.

It was given its own literary appreciation in the published 1990 memoirs of writer Julian Fane Best Friends.

Publications

  • Sir Walter Scott: The Raven Miscellany (1933 )
  • Early Victorian novelists: essays in revaluation (1934 )
  • Jane Austen (1936 )
  • The Young Melbourne and the Story of his Marriage with Caroline Lamb ( 1939)
  • The English Poets (1941 )
  • The Oxford Book of Christian Verse, editor (1941 )
  • Men of the RAF, co-author William Rothstein (1942 )
  • Hardy the Novelist: an Essay in Criticism (1942 )
  • Antony and Cleopatra, the fourth WP Ker memorial lecture delivered in the University of Glasgow, 4 May 1943 (1944 )
  • Poetry of Thomas Gray ( 1945)
  • Two Quiet Lives, biography of Dorothy Osborne and Thomas Gray ( 1948)
  • Poets & Story - tellers, essays (1949 )
  • Reading as One of the Fine Arts ( 1949), inaugural lecture at the University of Oxford on 28 May 1949
  • Lord M, or the Later Life of Lord Melbourne ( 1954)
  • Walter Pater - the Scholar Artist ( 1955)
  • Augustus John: Fifty -two Drawings ( 1957)
  • The Fine Art of Reading and Other Literary Studies (1957 )
  • Max, biography of Max Beerbohm (1964 )
  • The Bodley Head Beerbohm, editor (1970 )
  • Max Beerbohm: Selected Prose, editor (1970 )
  • Visionary and Dreamer: two poetic painters: Samuel Palmer and Edward Burne -Jones ( 1969)
  • A Choice of Tennyson 's verses, editor (1971 )
  • The Cecils of Hatfield House: A Portrait of an English Ruling Family (1973 )
  • Walter de la Mare ( 1973)
  • A Victorian Album: Julia Margaret Cameron and her Circle, co-author Graham Ovenden (1975 )
  • Library Looking-Glass, anthology (1975 )
  • Lady Ottoline 's Album ( 1976)
  • A Portrait of Charles Lamb (1983 )
  • Desmond MacCarthy, the Man and His Writings, editor (1984 )
  • Some Dorset Country Houses ( 1985)
  • Lord Milner: The Premier of the young Queen, the original title of Lord M. or the later life of Lord Melbourne, 1956
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