Literary critic, born in London, UK. He was professor of English literature at Oxford (194870), and is known chiefly as a literary biographer, in such works as Sir Walter Scott (1933), Jane Austen (1935), and Thomas Hardy (1943).
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Lord Edward Christian David Gascoyne-Cecil CH (April 9, 1902 – January 1, 1986), was an English aristocrat, literary scholar, biographer and academic.
Works
The Stricken Deer or The Life of Cowper (1929), on the poet William Cowper
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)
Oxford Book Of Christian
Verse (1941) editor
Men of the R.A.F. (1942) with Sir William Rothenstein
Hardy the Novelist, an Essay in Criticism (1942) Clark Lectures,
Antony and Cleopatra, the fourth
W.P. story-tellers (1949) essays
Reading as one of the fine arts (1949) inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on 28 May 1949
Lord M, or the Later Life of Lord
Melbourne (1954)
Walter Pater - the Scholar Artist (1955) Rede Lecture
Augustus John. Fifty-two Drawings (1957)
The Fine Art of Reading and other literary studies (1957)
Modern Verse in English 1900-1950 (1958) editor with Allen Tate
Max (1964) biography of Max Beerbohm
The Bodley Head Beerbohm (1970) editor
Visionary and dreamer :
two poetic painters : Samuel Palmer and Edward Burne-Jones (1969)
A Choice of Tennyson's verse (1971) editor
The Cecils of Hatfield House: A Portrait of an English Ruling
Family (1973)
Walter De La Mare (1973) English Association leaflet
A Victorian Album. Julia Margaret Cameron and her Circle (1975) with Graham Ovenden
Library
Looking-Glass (1975) anthology
Lady Ottoline 's Album (1976)
A Portrait of Jane Austen (1978)
A portrait of Charles Lamb (1983)
Desmond MacCarthy, the Man and His
Writings (1984) editor
Some Dorset Country Houses (1985)
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