David Daiches
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, David Daiches was a Scottish literary historian and literary critic, scholar and writer. He wrote extensively on English literature, Scottish literature and Scottish culture. Early life 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 moved to Edinburgh while still a young child, about the end of the First World War, where his father, Rev Dr Salis Daiches was rabbi to Edinburgh's Jewish community, and founder of the city's branch of B'nai Brith.
David Daiches's Published Works
Published Works
- Volume 30 (2002) (80)
- Critical Approaches to Literature (1956) (69)
- The paradox of Scottish culture : the eighteenth-century experience (1965) (50)
- The novel and the modern world (1939) (49)
- A Critical History of English Literature (1968) (30)
- A Study of Literature (1948) (24)
- The classical world (1972) (22)
- Willa Cather : a critical introduction (1951) (22)
- A Hotbed of Genius: The Scottish Enlightenment 1730-1790 (1987) (20)
- The idea of a new university : an experiment in Sussex (1970) (18)
- Robert Louis Stevenson and his world (1947) (17)
- Literary Landscapes of the British Isles: A Narrative Atlas (1979) (16)
- Studies in Scottish literature (1981) (16)
- What Was the Modern Novel? (1975) (16)
- Scott's Achievement as a Novelist. Part One (1951) (15)
- New light on Boswell : critical and historical essays on the occasion of the bicentenary of The life of Johnson (1991) (15)
- Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays. Northrop Frye (1958) (15)
- The Scottish Enlightenment, 1730-1790 : a hotbed of genius (1996) (13)
- Sir Walter Scott and his world (1971) (11)
- A Companion to Scottish culture (1981) (10)
- Scotch whisky: Its past and present (1976) (9)
- Scotland and the Union (1977) (9)
- Scott's Novels: The Plotting of Historic Survival (1967) (9)
- Robert Louis Stevenson and the Fiction of Adventure (1965) (7)
- A Study of Literature for Readers and Critics (1950) (7)
- The Penguin companion to literature. (1971) (7)
- The New companion to Scottish culture (1993) (6)
- Selected political writings and speeches (1979) (6)
- Poetry and the modern world: A study of poetry in England between 1900 and 1939 (1940) (6)
- The mediaeval world (1973) (6)
- God and the poets (1984) (6)
- Charles Edward Stuart;: The life and times of Bonnie Prince Charlie (1973) (5)
- The idea of a new university (1964) (5)
- A Critical History Of English Literature Volume I (1984) (5)
- James Joyce: The Artist as Exile (1940) (5)
- Pride and Prejudice / Sense and Sensibility (1950) (4)
- Two Worlds an Edinburgh Jewish Childhood (1971) (4)
- Emily Bronte - "Wuthering Heights" (1964) (4)
- Johnson's conversation in Boswell's Life of Johnson (1991) (4)
- Remembering the hero in Boswell's Life of Johnson (1991) (4)
- Truth and artifice in Boswell's Life of Johnson (1991) (3)
- "In ane uther leid": Reviewing Scottish Literature's Linguistic Boundaries (2013) (3)
- The Novels of Elizabeth Bowen (1949) (3)
- Imagery and meaning in Antony and Cleopatra (1962) (3)
- The King James version of the English Bible : an account of the development and sources of the English Bible of 1611 with special reference to the Hebrew tradition (1941) (3)
- Was: A Pastime from Time Past (1975) (2)
- George Eliot's Dr Lydgate (1971) (2)
- The Poetry of Dylan Thomas (1954) (2)
- The old world : discovery and rebirth (1974) (2)
- Boswell as critic (1991) (2)
- Stevenson and the art of fiction (1951) (2)
- Scott’s Achievement as a Novelist (1951) (1968) (2)
- The New Criticism: Some Qualifications (1950) (2)
- Literature and gentility in Scotland (1982) (2)
- The Penguin companion to literature : Britain and the Commonwealth (1971) (2)
- Boswell's liberty-loving Account of Corsica and the art of travel literature (1991) (2)
- Bonnie Prince Charlie : the life and times of Charles Edward Stuart (2002) (2)
- The present age after 1920 (1958) (2)
- The King James Version of the English Bible. An Account of the Development and Sources of the English Bible of 1611 with Special Reference to the Hebrew Tradition (1941) (2)
- God and the Poets: The Gifford Lectures, 1983@@@Literature and Religion: Essays on Renaissance Literature and Contemporary Criticism@@@Towards a Christian Poetics (2013) (2)
- A Critical history of English literature in two volumes (1960) (1)
- British Literary Landscapes: Review@@@Literary Landscapes of the British Isles: A Narrative Atlas (1980) (1)
- Boswell and sympathy: the trial and execution of John Reid (1991) (1)
- Time and the poet : the W. D. Thomas memorial lecture, delivered at the University College of Swansea on February 23, 1965 (1965) (1)
- More literary essays (1968) (1)
- The Avenel companion to English and American literature (1981) (1)
- The Penguin companion to English literature (1971) (1)
- The last Stuart: The life and times of Bonnie Prince Charlie (1973) (1)
- Some late Victorian attitudes: The Ewing lectures, University of California at Los Angeles, 1967 (1969) (1)
- George Eliot, Middlemarch (1963) (1)
- A Century of the essay : British and American (1951) (1)
- The place of meaning in poetry (1935) (1)
- The Present Age in British Literature (2012) (1)
- Robert Burns and his world (1971) (1)
- New Light on Boswell: Introduction: Boswell's ambiguities (1991) (1)
- Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (1976) (1)
- James Boswell and his world (1976) (1)
- Poems in English, 1530-1940 (1950) (1)
- A Preface to James Purdy's Malcolm (1962) (1)
- Literature and society (1969) (1)
- 1954: The Poetry of Dylan Thomas (1960) (1)
- Pride and prejudice ; and, Sense and sensibility (1950) (1)
- Milton, Paradise Lost (1983) (1)
- Robert Burns. Raymond Bentman. (1988) (0)
- A third world (1971) (0)
- A New Trend in American Fiction (1940) (0)
- HUGH MACDIARMID IN HIS CONTEXT (1965) (0)
- The Earlier Poems: Some Themes and Patterns (1965) (0)
- Robert Henryson@@@Robert Fergusson@@@Scott@@@Hugh MacDiarmid@@@The Enlightenment and Scottish Literature. Volume I. Progress and Poetry@@@Scottish Literature in English and Scots: A Guide to Information Sources (1986) (0)
- Book Review:The Creative Unconscious: Studies in the Psychoanalysis of Art. Hans Sachs (1943) (0)
- Sozialreform und Rhetorik : the rhetoric of welfare (1984) (0)
- Daiches, David : lecture : some later poets: the pitch of voice; April 7th, 1960 (1960) (0)
- Book Review:The Negro Caravan: Writings by American Negroes. Sterling A. Brown, Arthur P. Davis, Ulysses Lee (1942) (0)
- Literature and gentility in Scotland : the Alexander Lectures at the University of Toronto, 1980 (1986) (0)
- Introducing Robert Burns, his life and poetry (1982) (0)
- The Tuneful Flame: Songs of Robert Burns as He Sang Them (1958) (0)
- Book Review:The Sociology of Literary Taste. Levin L. Schucking, E. W. Dickes (1945) (0)
- Time and Sensibility (1964) (0)
- : The Scottish Novel: From Smollett to Spark. . Francis Russell Hart. (1979) (0)
- Which R. L. S. (1951) (0)
- Andrew Hook, Scotland and America 1750–1835 (Glasgow and London: Blackie, 1975, £7·25). Pp. xi, 260. (1978) (0)
- Is Achievement Possible Without Existence (2013) (0)
- Alexander Welsh. The hero of the Waverley Novels. New Haven. Yale University Press. 1963. xiv + 273 pp. $6.00. (1964) (0)
- Malory . Spenser . Donne . Horace Walpole . Edmund Burke . Burns . W.M. Rossetti . Lewis Carroll . James Joyce . Edmund Blunden . Dylan Thomas . W.H. Auden (1958) (0)
- Book Review:Myth and Society in Attic Drama. Alan M. G. Little (1943) (0)
- New Light on Boswell: Preface (1991) (0)
- Smollett and the Philosophers (1959) (0)
- Houghton Mifflin Literature Series. Values in Literature, Grade 9 (1965) (0)
- Book Review:The Forgotten Hume: Le bon David Ernest Campbell Mossner (1943) (0)
- FOREWORD (1999) (0)
- Robert Fitzhugh. Robert Burns: the Man and the Poet. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1970. 508 pp. $10.00. (1973) (0)
- American Jewish Stories (2013) (0)
- On Britain and the Commonwealth (1967) (0)
- Winston Churchill . Christopher Marlowe . Norman Douglas . Tennyson . J.B. Priestley . Dante Gabriel Rossetti . John Donne . Edmund Burke . Robert Burns . Edmund Spenser (1956) (0)
- Some Aspects of T. S. Eliot (1947) (0)
- Can we have a Jewish Culture in English (2013) (0)
- Some Aspects of Anglo-American Jewish Fiction (2013) (0)
- Scott’s Redgauntlet (1958) (1968) (0)
- The Van Dorens Revise (1940) (0)
- Book Review:Thomas Hardy, a Study of His Writings and Their Background William R. Rutland (1939) (0)
- New Light on Boswell: CONTEXTS FOR THE LIFE OF JOHNSON (1991) (0)
- CHAIM RAPHAEL: A MEMOIR (2013) (0)
- Moses: Man in the wilderness (1975) (0)
- The New Program for the A. M. Degree in English at the University of Chicago (1942) (0)
- Breaking the Deadlock (2013) (0)
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