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Richard Davenport-Hines

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Richard Davenport-Hines (born 1953) is a British writer, best known for his biography of the poet W. H. Auden. He has also written on the history of the gothic. He is a member of the Athenaeum Club in London.

Selected bibliography

  • Auden
  • Davenport-Hines, Richard: Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin (1999: North Port Press. ISBN 0865475903 (trade paperback) - A voluminous, if somewhat patchy, chronological/aesthetic history of the Gothic covering the spectrum from Gothic architecture to The Cure.
  • The Pursuit of Oblivion
  • Sex, Death, and Punishment
  • The MacMillans
  • A Night at the Majestic (2006), on Sydney Schiff's dinner of the talents
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