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David Holbrook

David Holbrook is a British writer, poet and academic. Since 1989 he has been Emeritus Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge.

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Born 9 January 1923
Died ,

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  • Cover of: English for maturity: English in the secondary school

    First published in 1961 — 9 editions
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  • Cover of: I've got to use words: an English work book

    First published in 1966 — 9 editions
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  • Cover of: People & diamonds: an anthology of modern short stories for use in secondary schools.

    First published in 1962 — 7 editions
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  • Cover of: The quest for love.

    Cover of edition questforlove0000holb First published in 1964 — 6 editions
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  • Cover of: English for Maturity

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  • Cover of: Against the cruel frost: a second volume of verse.

    First published in 1963 — 5 editions
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  • Cover of: Sylvia Plath: poetry and existence

    First published in 1976 — 5 editions
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  • Cover of: English for the rejected: training literacy in the lower streams of the secondary school.

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  • Cover of: Visions of life: prose passages in four volumes for reading and comprehension work.

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  • Cover of: Flesh wounds

    First published in 1966 — 4 editions
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  • Cover of: Gustav Mahler and the courage to be

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  • Cover of: Lost bearings in English poetry

    First published in 1977 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Education, nihilism, and survival

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  • Cover of: The secret places: essays on imaginative work in English teaching and on the culture of the child.

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  • Cover of: The Cambridge hymnal

    First published in 1967 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Iron, honey, gold: the uses of verse; an anthology.

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  • Cover of: Dylan Thomas and poetic dissociation.

    First published in 1964 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: The case against pornography

    First published in 1972 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Childrens Writing

    First published in 1967 — 3 editions
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Born 9 January 1923
Died ,

Subjects

History and criticism, Mathematics, study and teaching, History, Characters, Criticism and interpretation, English language, Women in literature, English poetry, Women, Women and literature, Education, English literature, Philosophical anthropology, Psychoanalysis and literature, Study and teaching, Study and teaching (Secondary), Fiction, general, Philosophy, Poetry, English Fantasy fiction, English Hymns, English fiction, Fiction in English, Popular culture, Psychology

Places

Great Britain, Scotland, United States, Wales, Australia, England, Italy

People

Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Edith Wharton (1862-1937), George MacDonald (1824-1905), Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), Ian Fleming (1908-1964), C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963 Lewis, C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), Charles Darwin (1809-1882), Charles Dickens (1812-1870), D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930), Emily Brontë (1818-1848), J. M. Barrie (1860-1937), J.M. Barrie (1860-1937), John Newton, Leo Tolstoy graf (1828-1910), Sue Lenier, Sylvia Plath, Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Time

20th century, 19th century

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September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
May 18, 2017 Edited by MARC Bot merge authors
March 31, 2017 Edited by MARC Bot add VIAF and wikidata ID
May 13, 2010 Edited by George Description, links
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import