David Daiches
David Daiches · Arts & Literature
Literary & drama critic
1912, Sunderland, England — 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland
United Kingdom
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David Daiches was a Scottish literary historian and critic, prolific author of the two-volume A Critical History of English Literature and studies of Burns, Scott, Stevenson, Milton, and others, who taught at universities including Cambridge and Sussex. The son of Edinburgh's Orthodox rabbi Salis Daiches, he recounted his upbringing in the memoir Two Worlds: An Edinburgh Jewish Childhood.
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Literary & drama critic
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