a critical history of english literature by david daiches pdf

Starting at the University of Edinburgh, he had a long and influential career teaching in the UK, the US and Canada. He also wrote two autobiographical volumes, books on Scotch whisky, the King James Bible, and the cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, a biography of Bonnie Prince Charlie, and a volume of poetry. Lawrence, John Milton, and Sir Walter Scott. He wrote biographical and critical works on Virginia Woolf, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Burns, D. He also wrote the two-volume A Critical History of English Literature and edited the Penguin Companion to Literature – Britain and the Commonwealth (1971). His The Novel and the Modern World (1939) was well received, and his expertise on the modern period led to his co-editing The Norton Anthology of English Literature (1962). He was a prolific writer, producing works on English literature, Scottish literature, literary history and criticism as well as the broader role of literature in society and culture.

Career ĭuring World War II, he worked for the British Embassy in Washington, DC, producing pamphlets for the British Information Service and drafting (and delivering) speeches on British institutions and foreign policy.ĭaiches' first published work was The Place of Meaning in Poetry, published in 1935. Although Lionel retained the older, traditional pronunciation of their surname as 'dyke-iz' /ˈdaɪ χ (or k) ɪz/, David returned from the USA with the Americanized 'day-ches', /ˈdeɪ tʃɪz/. His brother was the prominent Edinburgh QC Lionel Henry Daiches. He went to Oxford where he became the Elton exhibitioner, and was elected Fellow of Balliol College in 1936.ĭaiches is the father of Jenni Calder, also a Scottish literary historian. He studied at George Watson's College and won a scholarship to University of Edinburgh where he won the Elliot prize. Salis Daiches was rabbi to Edinburgh's Jewish community, and founder of the city's branch of B'nai Brith. He moved to Edinburgh while still a young child, about the end of World War I, where his father, Rev. He was born in Sunderland, into a Jewish family with a Lithuanian background-the subject of his 1956 memoir, Two Worlds: An Edinburgh Jewish Childhood. He wrote extensively on English literature, Scottish literature and Scottish culture. English and Scottish literature and cultureĭavid Daiches CBE (2 September 1912 – 15 July 2005) was a Scottish literary historian and literary critic, scholar and writer.

A critical history of english literature by david daiches pdf