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David HolbrookDavid Holbrook (born 1923) is a British writer, poet and academic. Since 1989 he has been Emeritus Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge. He was born in Norwich in 1923. He studied English at Downing College, Cambridge for a year from 1941, coming into contact with F. R. Leavis, before joining the British Army. He is sometimes identified as a Leavis disciple, but their relationship was slighter than this might suggest (and also ended angrily, though this is a lesser indication). His novel Flesh Wounds (1966) is a lightly-fictionalised account of his D-Day campaign experiences. In 1945 he returned to Downing to complete his degree, which he did in 1947. He made in 1946 a bleak visit to George Orwell on Jura. The actual reason was to see his girlfriend Susan Watson, who was Orwell's housekeeper, but Orwell assumed it was connected with Holbrook's membership of the Communist Party of Great Britain, and gave him a frosty reception. After Cambridge he became editor, initially with Edgell Rickword, of the communist cultural periodical Our Time. He then took up teaching positions, for the Worker's Educational Association and then at a secondary school in Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire. He became a full-time writer in the early 1960s. He also renewed links with the University of Cambridge, becoming a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Works - Childrens Games (1957)
- Imaginings (1961) poems
- English for Maturity (1961)
- Lights in the Sky Country: Mary Easter and Stories of East Anglia (1962)
- Llareggub Revisited. Dylan Thomas and the state of modern poetry (1962)
- Thieves and Angels (1962) editor, school drama
- People and Diamonds (1962) editor, school short story anthology
- Against the Cruel Frost (1963) poems
- Penguin Modern Poets 4 (1963) with Christopher Middleton and David Wevill
- English for the Rejected. Training Literacy in the Lower Streams of the Secondary School (1964)
- English in Australia Now. Notes on a visit to Victoria and other states (1964)
- The Secret Places. Essays on Imaginative Work in English Teaching and on the Culture of the Child (1964)
- Dylan Thomas and Poetic Dissociation (1964)
- The Quest for Love (1964)
- Visions of Life (1964) four volumes, editor, prose comprehension
- Iron, Honey, Gold: The Uses of Verse (1965) editor, poetry anthology
- Childhood by Maxim Gorki (1965) abridged, Gertrude M, Foakes translator
- Flesh Wounds (1966)
- Object Relations (1967) poems
- The Exploring Word: Creative Disciplines in the Education of Teachers of English (1967)
- Children's Writing a sampler for student teachers (1967)
- The Cambridge Hymnal (1967) compiler with Elizabeth Poston
- Plucking The Rushes (1968) editor
- Old World, New World (1969) poems
- Human Hope and the Death Instinct: An Exploration of Psychoanalytical Theories of Human Nature and their Implications for Culture and Education (1971)
- The Mask of Hate: The Problem of False Solutions in the Culture of an Acquistive Society (1972)
- Sex & Dehumanization in Art, Thought, and Life in Our Time (1972)
- Dylan Thomas; the Code of Night (1972)
- The Pseudo-Revolution (1972)
- The Case Against Pornography (1973) editor
- Education, Nihilism and Survival (1974)
- Gustav Mahler and The Courage To Be (1975)
- Sylvia Plath: Poetry and Existence (1976)
- A Play of Passion (1977) novel
- Lost Bearings in English Poetry (1977)
- Chance of a Lifetime (1978) poems
- Moments in Italy: Poems and Sketches (1978)
- A Play of Passion (1978)
- Selected Poems (1980)
- English for Meaning (1980)
- Nothing Larger Than Life (1987) novel
- Evolution and the Humanities (1987)
- The Novel and Authenticity (1987)
- Education and Philosophical Anthropology: Toward a New View of Man for the Humanities and English (1987)
- Worlds Apart (1988) novel
- Further Studies in Philosophical Anthropology (1988)
- Images of Woman in Literature (1989)
- What Is It to Be Human?: New Perspectives in Philosophy (1990)
- A Little Athens (1990) novel
- The Skeleton in the Wardrobe: C.S. Lewis's Fantasies: A Phenomenological Study (1991)
- Edith Wharton and the Unsatisfactory Man (1991)
- Where Lawrence Was Wrong About Woman (1992)
- Jennifer (1992) novel
- Charles Dickens and the Image of Woman (1993)
- The Gold In Father's Heart (1992) novel
- Creativity and Popular Culture (1994)
- Even If They Fail (1994) novel
- Tolstoy, Woman, and Death. A Study of War and Peace and Anna Karenina (1997)
- Wuthering Heights: A Drama of Being (1997)
- Getting It Wrong With Uncle Tom (1998) novel
- Bringing Everything Home (1999) poems
- A Study of George MacDonald and the Image of Women (2000)
- Lewis Carroll: Nonsense Against Sorrow (2000)
- Bad Trip in a Tired Whale (2001)
Reference - Edwin Webb, editor (1995) Powers of Being: David Holbrook and His Work
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