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Ellis has produced an excellent, humane and independently minded account, and he is candid enough not always to admire what he finds. Seamus Perry, The Times Literary Supplement

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Born in the UK, David Ellis read English at Cambridge under F. R. Leavis. After studying for his PhD, he spent three years teaching at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. On his return to England he took up a lectureship at the University of Kent in Canterbury where he is now an emeritus professor of English Literature. During his time at Kent, he lectured periodically in France and Italy, and spent three academic years in the United States. Two of these were as a visiting professor at first the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and then the University of Indiana in Bloomington while the third was as a research fellow in the National Humanities Center, North Carolina. Ellis's first book was on Wordsworth but he was then invited to write the third volume of the Cambridge biography of D. H. Lawrence. This appeared in 1998 and was short-listed for the James Tait Black prize. After its appearance he continued to work on Lawrence, writing numerous essays, editing (with Ornella de Zordo) four volumes of criticism of Lawrence, and publishing in 2008 Death and the Author: How D. H. Lawrence died, and was remembered (Oxford University Press). But he has also published widely on Shakespeare and continued to be interested in the Romantic period. His most recent publications include Memoirs of a Leavisite (Liverpool University Press, 2013) The Truth about William Shakespeare (Edinburgh University Press, 2012). and Byron in Geneva: That Summer of 1816 (Liverpool University Press, 2011). In April of this year (2015), Bloomsbury published his tribute to a philosopher friend: Frank Cioffi: The Philosopher in Shirt-Sleeves. .

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