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	Davies, Robertson William
		Davies, Robertson William, writer, journalist, professor (b at Thamesville, Ont 28 Aug 1913; d at Toronto Dec 2, 1995).
		Davies is acknowledged as an outstanding essayist and brilliant novelist.
		Davies moved from the theory of acting outlined in Shakespeare for Young Players (1947) to the writing of plays with Eros at Breakfast, a one-act play which won the 1948 Dominion Drama Festival Award for best Canadian play.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0002151 (854 words)

	Robertson Davies
		Robertson Davies (August 28, 1913 - December 2, 1995) was a Canadian author.
		While Davies spent his first twenty-three working years at various newspapers in small town Ontario, his first passion was for the theatre, which is where he met and married his wife, Brenda.
		Davies later became the Master of Massey College at the University of Toronto (1961-1981).
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ro/Robertson_Davies.html (153 words)

	Robertson Davies - MSN Encarta
		Robertson Davies (1913-1995), Canadian novelist, essayist, and playwright, best known for three trilogies about Canadian life that are distinguished by their firm moral sense, narrative strength, and elegant use of myth, reality, and illusion.
		Davies uses a variety of approaches—including comedy, satire, myth, coming-of-age fiction, allegory, and historical romance—to depict Canadian subjects.
		Born William Robertson Davies in Thamesville, Ontario, he was educated at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and at Balliol College, University of Oxford, in Oxford, England.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761579631/Davies_Robertson.html (230 words)

	Robertson Davies Quotes - The Quotations Page
		He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.
		To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
		Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947
	www.quotationspage.com /quotes/Robertson_Davies (445 words)

	Northwest Passages - Author Profile: Robertson Davies
		For Davies the theater was always to embody the element of illusion in life, as well as serving as the jumping-off point for his belief in the crucial importance of the arts in the shaping of personal and national identity.
		Davies was present during the initial stages of planning (Massey did not open until 1963), and was a guiding spirit in matters pertaining to the college's architecture; logos and symbolic images, including quotations and crests; its structural organization; apportioning of office space and the other myriad things that are entailed in such an enterprise.
		Davies interpreted one important dream to mean that he was evolving on the path toward integration (individuation) by embracing and rendering harmless the shadow parts of himself.
	www.nwpassages.com /bios/davies.asp (3110 words)

	Robertson Davies Biography and Summary
		Robertson Davies (1913-1995) enjoyed a distinguished career as a journalist, playwright, and novelist, helping to enhance the literary standing of his native Canada.
		Robertson Davies was a writer of grand ideas and fertile imagination who excelled in a v...
		William Robertson Davies, CC, FRSC, FRSL (born August 28, 1913 at Thamesville, Ontario, and died December 2, 1995 at Orangeville, Ontario) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor.
	www.bookrags.com /Robertson_Davies (291 words)

	Robertson Davies at AllExperts
		Davies was the founding Master of Massey College, a graduate college at the University of Toronto.
		Davies' early life provided him with themes and material to which he would often return in his later work, including the theme of Canadians returning to England to finish their education, and the theatre.
		Davies drew on his interest in Jungian psychology to create what was perhaps his greatest novel: Fifth Business (1970), a book that draws heavily on Davies' own experiences, his love of myth and magic and his knowledge of small-town mores.
	en.allexperts.com /e/r/ro/robertson_davies.htm (1467 words)

	Centre for Language and Literature - Canadian Writers - Robertson Davies - Athabasca University
		William Robertson Davies was born in 1913 in Thamesville, Ontario to a Welsh father and a strict Presbyterian mother.
		Robertson Davies worked in his early career to increase the quality and profile of Canadian drama.
		Robertson Davies received the Stephen Leacock Medal for humour in 1955, the Lorne Pierce Medal in 1961, the Governor-General’s Award in 1972, as well as 23 honorary degrees.
	www.athabascau.ca /writers/rdavies.html (472 words)

	Robertson Davies - Encyclopedia.com
		Robertson Davies (William Robertson Davies) dā´vĬs, 1913-95, Canadian writer and editor.
		The Anatomy of Influence: Robertson Davies's Psychosomatic Medicine.
		Temples and tabernacles: alternative religions in the fictional microcosms of Robertson Davies, Margaret Laurence, and Alice Munro.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-DaviesR.html (1050 words)

	FIRST THINGS: On the Square » Blog Archive » Bottum: On Robertson Davies
		Davies always had character, and as I noted in an article on him at the time of his death, when a man has character, the hardest temptation to resist is the temptation to become a character—and Robertson Davies was never a man to resist the temptation very strenuously.
		Wise and witty, it is simultaneously Davies’ funniest novel and his kindest—a nearly Dickensian novel that exposes the foibles of its characters but refuses to leave them shamed beyond redemption.
		One constant in Davies’ fiction is the intrigues in the closes of Episcopalian cathedrals, and a fascination with high Anglicanism appears in all his novels.
	www.firstthings.com /onthesquare/?p=501 (659 words)

	Robertson Davies Interview with Don Swaim
		Robertson Davies, author of Tempest-Tost, Leaven of Malice, A Mixture of Frailties, The Lyre of Orpheus, and many others, talks with Don Swaim in this 1989 interview.
		Davies began his career in the theater and made his way into journalism.
		Davies explains that he does not admire journalists who write purely from their own personal experiences because they are grasping the obvious.
	wiredforbooks.org /robertsondavies (147 words)

	Internet Book List :: Author Information: Robertson Davies
		Robertson Davies (August 28, 1913 - December 2, 1995) was a Canadian author.
		While Davies spent his first twenty-three working years at various newspapers in small town Ontario, his first passion was for the theatre, which is where he met and married his wife, Brenda.
		Davies later became the Master of Massey College at the University of Toronto (1961-1981).
	www.iblist.com /author617.htm (134 words)

	Word Spy - Robertson Davies
		A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you will find them neatly arranged.
		—Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist, essayist, and playwright, The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies, 1989
		A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity, and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon, and by moonlight.
	www.wordspy.com /waw/Davies-Robertson.asp (180 words)

	Robertson Davies - Wikiquote
		Robertson Davies, CC (1913-08-28 - 1995-12-02) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist and professor.
		I expect that Hell is very heavily populated with just exactly that sort of person [who feels he's accomplished all his goals early in life] because, you know, somebody who fears that he has exhausted what there is for him to do and what he can do at thirty-five, is a fool.
		Famous author (and former newspaperman) Robertson Davies recently gave a reading from his latest novel to a packed library theatre in Calgary.
	en.wikiquote.org /wiki/Robertson_Davies (13411 words)

	Robertson Davies books reviews
		In this first book of Davies' trilogy, a snowball aimed at Ramsay by his childhood friend Percy Boyd Staunton hits the pregnant Mrs.
		In this final book of Davies' trilogy, famed illusionist Magnus Eisengrim is cast in the starring role in a film about French illusionist Robert-Houdin.
		Robertson Davies Message Board 5/1/2007 10:20:48 AM Talk about the novels, new and used books that Davies has written!
	www.allreaders.com /Topics/Topic_379.asp (582 words)

	Robertson Davies - Penguin UK Authors - Penguin UK
		Robertson Davies - Penguin UK Authors - Penguin UK PenguinBooks
		Robertson Davies, novelist, playwright, literary critic and essayist, was born in 1913 in Thamesville, Ontario.
		His other work includes One Half of Robertson Davies, The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies, Robertson Davies: The Well-Tempered Critic, The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks, High Spirits, A Voice from the Attic and The Merry Heart, a posthumous collection of autobiography, lectures and essays.
	www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000008384,00.html (76 words)

	Robertson Davies
		The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies (1990) by Judith Skelton
		Robertson Davies: Man of Myth (1995) by Judith Shelton Grant
		Robertson Davies: A Mingling of Contrarietiess (2001) by Camille R LA Bossiere and Linda M Morra
	www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /d/robertson-davies (204 words)

	Robertson Davies - Authors - Random House
		Robertson Davies was born and raised in Ontario and was educated at a variety of schools, Upper Canada College, Queen’s University, and Balliol College, Oxford.
		He had three successive careers: first as an actor with the Old Vic Company in England; then as publisher of the Peterborough Examiner; and most recently as a university professor and first Master of Massey College at the University of Toronto, from which he retired in 1981.
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	www.randomhouse.com /author/results.pperl?authorid=6514 (261 words)

	Quoteland :: Quotations by Author
		But the stupidity which disguises itself as thought, and which talks so glibly and eloquently, indeed never stops talking, in every walk of life is not so easy to identify, because it marches under a formidable name, which few dare attack.
		Very often when I am introduced to women, I think, "What is she really like behind the disguise which she wears?" And very often I discover that she is pleasant enough, and probably would expand and glow if she received enough affection.
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