Daiches, David

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Daiches, David

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1912-2005

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David Daiches, British critic, was born in England in 1912. A graduate of Edinburgh University (M.A. 1934), and Oxford (M.A. 1936, Ph.D.1939) , Daiches has taught at several English and American universities and written many valuable works of criticism. They include The Novel and the Modern World (1939), A Study of Literature (1948), A Critical Approach to Literature (1956), A Critical History of English Literature (1960), and More Literary Essays (1968). He has also written studies of Burns, Milton, Boswell, Scott, Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf, and a biography of Charles Edward Stuart. His recent works include guides to cultural monuments in Glasgow, Edinburgh, and the British Isles.

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