Lord David Cecil

Lord Edward Christian David Gascoyne-Cecil (April 9, 1902 ? January 1, 1986), was an English aristocrat, literary scholar, biographer and academic. His title was a courtesy title: he was a younger son of the 4th Marquess of Salisbury.

Works

• The Stricken Deer or The Life of Cowper (1929)
• Sir Walter Scott: The Raven Miscellany (1933)
• Early Victorian novelists : essays in revaluation (1934)
• Jane Austen (1936)
• The Young Melbourne and the Story of his Marriage with Caroline Lamb (1939)
• The English Poets (1941)
• Oxford Book Of Christian Verse (1941) editor
• Men of the R.A.F.(1942) with Sir William Rothenstein
• Hardy the Novelist, an Essay in Criticism (1942) Clark Lectures,
• Antony and Cleopatra, the fourth W.P. Ker memorial lecture delivered in the University of Glasgow, 4th May, 1943 (1944)
• Poetry of Thomas Gray (1945) Warton Lecture
• Two Quiet Lives (1948) Dorothy Osborne and.Thomas Gray
• Poets & story-tellers (1949) essays
• Reading as one of the fine arts (1949) inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on 28 May 1949
• Lord M, or the Later Life of Lord Melbourne (1954)
• Walter Pater - the Scholar Artist (1955) Rede Lecture
• Augustus John. Fifty-two Drawings (1957)
• The Fine Art of Reading and other literary studies (1957)
• Modern Verse in English 1900-1950 (1958) editor with Allen Tate
• Max (1964) biography of Max Beerbohm
• The Bodley Head Beerbohm (1970) editor
• Visionary and dreamer : two poetic painters : Samuel Palmer and Edward Burne-Jones (1969)
• A Choice of Tennyson's verse (1971) editor
• The Cecils of Hatfield House: A Portrait of an English Ruling Family (1973)
• Walter De La Mare (1973) English Association leaflet
• A Victorian Album. Julia Margaret Cameron and her Circle (1975) with Graham Ovenden
• Library Looking-Glass (1975) anthology
• Lady Ottoline 's Album (1976)
• A Portrait of Jane Austen (1978)
• A portrait of Charles Lamb (1983)
• Desmond Maccarthy, the Man and His Writings (1984) editor
• Some Dorset Country Houses (1985)