He went to Oxford where he became the Elton exhibitioner, and was elected Fellow of Balliol College in 1936.ĭuring World War II, he worked for the British Embassy in Washington, DC, producing pamphlets for the British Information Service and drafting speeches on British institutions and foreign policy.ĭaiches' first published work was The Place of Meaning in Poetry, published in 1935. He studied at George Watson's College and won a scholarship to University of Edinburgh where he won the Elliot prize. Critical Approaches To Literature and Literary Essays (both 1956) were followed by John Milton (1957), The Present Age (1958) and A Critical History Of English Literature in 1960. 1) (A Critical History of English Literature) by David Daiches 9780749318932,Buy new & second-hand (used) books online.
Salis Daiches was rabbi to Edinburgh's Jewish community. He moved to Edinburgh while still a young child, about the end of World War I, where his father, Rev. A Critical History of English Literature The Adam Smith Review Volume 8 Adam Smith’s contribution to economics is well-recognised, but in recent years scholars have been exploring anew the multidisciplinary nature of his works. He was born in Sunderland, into a Jewish family with a Lithuanian background - the subject of his 1956 memoir, Two Worlds: An Edinburgh Jewish Childhood.
He wrote extensively on English literature, Scottish literature and Scottish culture. David Daiches was a Scottish literary historian and literary critic, scholar and writer.