Lord David Cecil Quotes
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On W. H. Auden's deep facial wrinkles:
Were a fly to attempt to cross it, it would break its leg.Lord David Cecil
Lord David Cecil
Born: April 9, 1902
Died: January 1, 1986 (aged 83)
Bio: Lord Edward Christian David Gascoyne-Cecil was a British biographer, historian and academic. He held the style of "Lord" by courtesy, as a younger son of a marquess.
Known for:
- The young Melbourne
- Portrait of Jane Austen (1978)
- Two quiet lives (1948)
- Hardy, the Novelist: An Essay in Criticism (1943)
- The English Poets (1942)
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