Quote of the day
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
David Holbrook
Born: January 9, 1923
Died: August 11, 2011 (aged 88)
Bio: David Kenneth Holbrook was a British writer, poet and academic. From 1989 he was an Emeritus Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge.
Known for:
- Flesh Wounds (1966)
- Sylvia Plath: Poetry and Existence (1976)
- Sex & dehumanization (1972)
- English for maturity (1961)
- Edith Wharton and the unsatisfactory man (1991)