Cecil, David 1902-1986

Overview

Works:	260 works in 1,673 publications in 3 languages and 29,878 library holdings
Genres:	Biographies Criticism, interpretation, etc History Religious poetry Poetry Portraits Literary criticism Legislative hearings Photographs
Roles:	Author, Editor, Author of introduction, Other, Creator, Compiler, Contributor, Illustrator
Classifications:	DA536.M5, B

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about David Cecil

David Cecil : a portrait by his friends( Book )
Best friends : memories of Rachel and David Cecil, Cynthia Asquith, L.P. Hartley, and some others by Julian Fane( Book )
David Cecil : a portrait( Book )
The Young Melbourne, and the story of his marriage with Caroline Lamb by David Cecil( Book )
L.P. Hartley letters by L. P Hartley( )

Old master drawings by Sotheby's (Firm)( Book )
Early Victorian novelists: essays in revaluation by David Cecil( Book )
Cranleigh, to Tom Turner by Frank Swinnerton( )
Aline Fruhauf papers by Aline Fruhauf( )
Fine old master drawings by Sotheby's (Firm)( Book )
Siegfried Sassoon papers by Siegfried Sassoon( )
Tribute to Walter De la Mare by W. R Bett( )
The novelist at work. A conversation between Joyce Cary and Lord David Cecil by Joyce Cary( )
Fine continental furniture by Manson & Woods Christie( Book )
[Inauguration of Peace Pavilion and Peace Column. Hearst vault material, HVMc701r6, D3894]( Visual )
Essays and poems presented to David Cecil( Book )
Edmund Blunden papers by Edmund Blunden( )
L.P. Hartley letters by L. P Hartley( )

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Most widely held works by David Cecil

A portrait of Jane Austen by David Cecil( Book )

70 editions published between 1978 and 2015 in 3 languages and held by 1,971 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Drawing on Jane Austen's letters, novels and other people's memories of her, Lord David Cecil sets out 'to reconstruct and depict her living personality and to explore its relation to her art'. The portrait that emerges is of a clear-sighted, observant, strong-minded woman whose witty and ironic representation of her own society has delighted readers for centuries

Melbourne by David Cecil( Book )

62 editions published between 1939 and 1986 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,666 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, PC, FRS (1779-1848), usually addressed as Lord Melbourne, was a British Whig statesman who served as Home Secretary (1830-1834) and Prime Minister (1834 and 1835-1841). He is best known for his intense and successful mentoring of Queen Victoria, at ages 18-21, in the ways of politics. Historians have concluded that Melbourne does not rank high as a prime minister, for there were no great foreign wars or domestic issues to handle, he lacked major achievements, and he enunciated no grand principles. His most famous dictum in politics was "Why not leave it alone?", quoted by those who object to change for change's sake. The city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, was named in his honor in March 1837, as he was Prime Minister at the time. Melbourne was dismissed by King William IV in 1834, the last British prime minister to be dismissed by a monarch.--Wikipedia

Modern verse in English, 1900-1950 by David Cecil( Book )

32 editions published between 1958 and 1969 in English and German and held by 1,583 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Oxford book of Christian verse by David Cecil( Book )

44 editions published between 1940 and 1985 in English and held by 1,576 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Lord David Cecil, well known for his writings, and particularly for his brilliant lives of the poet Cowper and of the young Lord Melbourne, has set out in this anthology to make a full and representative collection of English religious verse

Hardy : the novelist: an essay in criticism by David Cecil( Book )

105 editions published between 1916 and 1978 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,519 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This study was composed as a course of lectures. I fear that, transferred to the printed page, its mode of expression may seem at once too colloquial and too declamatory, too loose in structure and too emphatic in phrase, not to jar on a fastidious taste. If so, I hope my critics will remember that it was designed to be heard by an audience, not perused by a solitary reader and will grant me their indulgence. May I also take this occasion to thank the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, first for doing me the honour of inviting me to deliver the Clark Lectures, and secondly for the warmth of their welcome to me during my sojourn in their stately courts

Early Victorian novelists: essays in revaluation by David Cecil( Book )

100 editions published between 1934 and 1980 in 3 languages and held by 1,291 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

These essays are derived from a series of lectures on the Victorian novel delivered at Oxford two or three years ago.-Prefatory note

Max, a biography by David Cecil( Book )

37 editions published between 1964 and 1985 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,285 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Donated: The Margaret A. Bailey Art Collection

Victorian novelists; essays in revaluation by David Cecil( Book )

29 editions published between 1958 and 1975 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,244 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Young Melbourne, and the story of his marriage with Caroline Lamb by David Cecil( Book )

56 editions published between 1939 and 2013 in English and held by 1,156 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Om William Lamb (1779-1848), senere engelsk permierminister, og hans hustru, Caroline Lamb (1785-1828), hvis forhold til digteren Byron blev ægteskabets endeligt

The fine art of reading, and other literary studies by David Cecil( Book )

33 editions published between 1957 and 2001 in English and held by 1,108 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Reflections on literature from Shakespeare to Conrad

Visionary and dreamer : two poetic painters : Samuel Palmer and Edward Burne-Jones by David Cecil( Book )

35 editions published between 1969 and 1983 in English and held by 1,076 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This portrait of two major Victorian painters provides an absorbing study of nineteenth-century art. Both were 'poet-painters', inspired by literary sources including Shakespeare, Milton, Keats and Pope as well as mythology, poetry, faith and romance

The stricken deer; or, The life of Cowper by David Cecil( Book )

97 editions published between 1847 and 1980 in 3 languages and held by 1,073 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Cecils of Hatfield House : an English ruling family by David Cecil( Book )

30 editions published between 1973 and 1975 in English and held by 1,017 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

History of the Cecil family of England between the late 1400s and 1973. The family held peerage titles of the Marquess of Salisbury and earlier the Earl of Salisbury. Even earlier (in the 1500s), for one generation, a Cecil was the first Earl of Exeter. The family was related by intermarriage to the Duke of Devonshire, the Marquess of Westmeath, and the Earls of Kinnoull, Oxford and Selborne

Two quiet lives: Dorothy Osborne, Thomas Gray by David Cecil( Book )

60 editions published between 1947 and 2009 in English and Undetermined and held by 967 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Poets and story-tellers : a book of critical essays by David Cecil( Book )

32 editions published between 1949 and 1986 in English and Undetermined and held by 887 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Il relève le dépouillement, la sévérité voulus par Constant dans le canevas et le style du roman

A portrait of Charles Lamb by David Cecil( Book )

14 editions published between 1983 and 1984 in English and held by 610 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Biography of the essayist who was a central figure of the romantic movement. 1983

A Victorian album : Julia Margaret Cameron and her circle by Julia Margaret Cameron( Book )

8 editions published between 1975 and 1976 in English and held by 600 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A photograph collection of Victorian portraits collected by Julia Margaret Cameron and gifted as a photograph album to her sister Mia (Maria) Jackson in 1863. The original album was made up of two parts, the first part being photographs taken by Julia Margaret Cameron and the second part taken by other prominent Victorian era photographers

The Heritage of British literature by Elizabeth Bowen( Book )

3 editions published in 1983 in English and held by 529 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Introducing or re_introducing us to the pleasures of the most memorable works and writers through the centuries. Lord David Cecil as a poet, Graham Greene as a dramatist, Elizabeth Bowen as a novelist, Kate O'Brien for diaries and journals and Anthony Burgess defines the place of British literature in the contemporary world

The English poets by David Cecil( Book )

43 editions published between 1940 and 1996 in 3 languages and held by 499 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Romance of English literature by W. J Turner( Book )

1 edition published in 1944 in English and held by 461 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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