Saturday, May 1, 2010

Lord David Cecil

Lord David Cecil was an extraordinary biographer, employing artistic imagery and excellent narratives along with highly educated philosophies. Cecil was born in 1902 to one of England’s most influential aristocracies and wealthiest families of the time. The Cecil family’s legacy stretched back to Queen Elizabeth I with Robert Cecil, the first earl of Salisbury. Lord David Cecil published his first book in 1933, a biography of Sir Walter Scott. Lord David’s masterpiece of his life is considered the two volume biography of Lord Melbourne: The Young Melbourne and Lord M. He tended to focus more on the development of the individuals rather than composing stories that were abstract and complicated. When Cecil joined the Oxford University as a professor he united with the club of authors known as the Inklings and contributed in critiques and a captivated audience. While he was not a writer of the mythical he had an appreciation for his colegues’ work. Lord David Cecil continued writing until he was seventy-six years old, publishing his final work: A Portrait of Jane Austen in 1978. During his life he also received the Royal Society of Literature Companion of Literature and the Order of the Companions of Honour. He passed away eight years later and, due to his titles, was buried in an undisclosed location.



Other Literary Works:
A Portrait of Jane Austen
Melbourne
Early Victorian Novelists
Max: A Biography
The Cecils of Hatfield House: An English ruling family
The young Melbourne
Choice of Tennyson's Verse
The Fine Art of Reading
Victorian Novelists: Essays in Revaluation
The English Poets (Bratain in Pictures)
Modern verse in English (1900-1950)
Two Quiet Lives: Dorothy Osborne and Thomas Gray
Library Looking Glass: A personal anthology
The stricken deer: or The Life of Cowper
The Oxford Book of Christian Verse
A Portrait of Charles Lamb
Hatfield House
Lord M., or, The later life of Lord Melbourne
Visionary and Dreamer
Hardy the Novelist, an essay of Criticism
Young Melbourne: and the story of his marriage to Caroline Lamb
Poets and Story Tellers: A Book of Critical Essays
English short stories of my time

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