Author guide
David Ellis Books in Order
David Ellis is an English academic and writer, emeritus professor of English literature at the University of Kent. His books examine D. H. Lawrence, William Shakespeare, Stendhal, Wordsworth, and Byron, and include literary criticism, biography, cultural history, and memoir.
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Literary Lives: Biography and the Search for Understanding
A broad and accessible introduction to Ellis's sustained interest in biography and literary interpretation.
D. H. Lawrence: Dying Game, 1922–1930
Ellis's major biographical work and the concluding volume of the Cambridge biography of D. H. Lawrence.
Read in order
Books by series
biographical-series · complete
The Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence, 1885–1930
A three-volume biography of D. H. Lawrence; Ellis wrote the concluding volume.
- 1 D. H. Lawrence: Dying Game, 1922–1930Amazon ↗
Book 3 · biography · 1998
book-series · complete
Icons of Modern Culture
A short-lived illustrated biographical series in which Ellis's book on Shakespeare appeared.
- 1 That Man Shakespeare: Icon of Modern CultureAmazon ↗
Book Shakespeare · biography · 2005
Outside the series
Bibliography by category
Nonfiction (13)
- Wordsworth, Freud, and the Spots of Time: Interpretation in The PreludeAmazon ↗
literary criticism · 1985
- D. H. Lawrence's Non-fiction: Art, Thought, and GenreAmazon ↗
literary criticism · 1988
- Literary Lives: Biography and the Search for UnderstandingAmazon ↗
literary criticism · 2000
- Shakespeare's Practical Jokes: An Introduction to the Comic in His WorkAmazon ↗
literary criticism · 2007
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Byron in Geneva: That Summer of 1816Amazon ↗biography · 2011
- The Truth About William ShakespeareAmazon ↗
biography · 2012
- Memoirs of a Leavisite: The Decline and Fall of Cambridge EnglishAmazon ↗
memoir · 2013
- Love and Sex in D. H. LawrenceAmazon ↗
literary criticism · 2015
- Frank Cioffi: The Philosopher in Shirt-SleevesAmazon ↗
biography · 2015
- Perfidious Albion: The Story of Stendhal and British CultureAmazon ↗
cultural history · 2018
- The Comic in ShakespeareAmazon ↗
literary criticism · 2022
- D. H. Lawrence: Then and NowAmazon ↗
literary criticism · 2025
Essays and speeches (1)
- Blasted with Antiquity: Old Age and the Consolations of LiteratureAmazon ↗
essay collection · 2023