Quote of the day
Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
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)






