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Apr 27, 2024 · Cecil Day Lewis. It is the logic of our times, No subject for immortal verse—. That we who lived by honest dreams. Defend the bad against the worse. Cecil Day Lewis, CBE ( 27 April 1904 – 22 May 1972) was an Irish poet, the British Poet Laureate between 1968 to 1972, and, under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake, a mystery writer. He was the ...
Discover all poems by C. Day Lewis. Also by C. Day Lewis. Poem. Overture to Death Part 1. by C. Day Lewis. Poem. In the Heart of Contemplation. by C. Day Lewis. Poem.
Cecil Day Lewis Stanford University Press , 1992 - Poetry - 745 pages C. Day Lewis (1904-1972) was one of the leading young poets of the 1930's who - along with W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, and Stephen Spender - broke away from the staid poetic establishment to dominate British poetry in the middle third of the century.
Day Lewis. Poetry Reading (1964) play; pause; stop; mute; unmute; previous; next
February 1933. Address to the Mother. By Cecil Day-Lewis. JSTOR and the Poetry Foundation are collaborating to digitize, preserve, and extend access to Poetry. Source: Poetry (February 1933) Browse all issues back to 1912. This Appears In. Read Issue. SUBSCRIBE TODAY.
Come, live with me and be my love. That chance employment may afford. We’ll hope to hear some madrigals. But toil shall tire thy loveliness. Then live with me and be my love. Analysis (ai): The poem presents a stark and pragmatic view of love and domestic life.
Two Travellers. From snatches of vision, hints of vanishing airs. And the chimneystacks prayers. A seasoned commuter. His looks assert, The longest journey, or notice the dress it wears. At the window-squares. Watching these two whom the train indifferently bears. Wither he fares.
