DAOUD, Edward (Dowden Edward)

(1843-1913)
Born May 3, 1843 in Cork. Educated at Queens College in Cork and Dublin's Trinity College (1862), where in 1867 headed the Department of Rhetoric and English Literature. He was a lecturer at Oxford University Program Taylor (1889), in Cambridge, Trinity College - Program Clark (1892-1895). In 1896, lectured at the celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of Princeton University (USA). Dowd tried his hand at poetry (a collection published in 1876), . but in the history of literature, he remained on the works of Shakespeare (Shakespeare: the critical study of his views and creativity - Shakespeare: A Critical Study of His Mind and Art, . 1875) and literary biographies, . first of all - a biography of Shelley (1886), . prompted Mark Twain delivered his famous essay In Defense of Harriet Shelley,
. Daoud died April 4, 1913.