The Art of Reading
Teacher, biographer, and the talented descendant of one of Britain’s oldest families. LORD DAVID CECIL is well known in this country for his delightful prose portrait The Young Melbourne, for his biography of the poet Cowper, The Stricken Deer, and more recently for his study of Dorothy Osborne and Thomas Gray, Two Quiet Lives. On his inauguration as Goldsmiths’ Professor of English at Oxford University, Lord David delivered this illuminating talk on the reading of great books, an essay which the Clarendon Press has published in pamphlet form.