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David Holbrook obituary
David Holbrook, who has died aged 88, was a great teacher and writer on education. He was also a poet, novelist, literary critic, anthologist and commentator on culture.
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A polemical writer of letters to newspapers, he waged an untiring campaign against nihilism in its many forms. His belief that human beings cannot live without a sense of meaning underlies all his work, but had its most practical effect in classrooms all over the English-speaking world.
Holbrook was born in Norwich, where his father was a railway clerk.
Inspired by Nugent Monck, the innovative and eccentric director of the local Maddermarket theatre, the teenage Holbrook discovered Shakespeare's creativity on stage. Forty years on, he wrote a vivid commemoration of Monck in his novel A Play of Passion (1978).
In 1941 he went to Downing College, Cambridge, with a scholarship in English, but joined the army a year later.
In 1944 he took part in the D-day landings, during which he was wounded
