David Daiches was a leading and long-standing authority on Scottish literature, the author and editor and introducer of books on Robert Fergusson, Robert Burns, James Boswell, Walter Scott (whom he is ...

A review of The Novel and the Modern World, by David Daiches. Human history is a wave-series of civilizations. At the crest of each, society is united in a community of belief, a standard concept of ...

David Daiches, 92, an expert on both Scotch whiskey and Scottish and English literature, died July 15 in Edinburgh, Scotland, of unspecified causes. The prolific professor of English wrote more than ...

PROFESSOR David Daiches was one of Scotland's finest literary critics of the past 100 years, to be spoken of in the same breath as Edwin Muir. He had the same breadth of reading and the same level of ...

byDavid Daiches, Cornell Univ. Press, $2.75. David Daiches, Professor of English at Cornell, has written a lucid and extremely illuminating inquiry into literary values, addressed not so much to his ...

VIRGINIA WOOLF—David Daiches—New Directions ($1.50). For the late, probably great Virginia Woolf, Chicago University’s David Daiches has written a helpful set of program notes for lay readers.

Recently, as Scotland’s independence vote began to loom large in the media, someone asked me if I had ever heard of Scots Yiddish. “I canna say that I have,” I answered, only to be told that there was ...

Professor David Daiches, who has died aged 92, was a brilliant teacher, prolific writer and an outstanding literary critic. The author of more than 50 books, as well as countless articles and reviews ...

THE first time I met David Daiches was in Miller's Wine Bar in King's Parade, Cambridge. Somewhat hungover, I ordered, following Byron's recommendation in Don Juan, a glass of hock-and-soda-water, ...