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Unlike traditional war poetry, which often glorifies conflict, this poem questions the language used to justify war, exposing its hollowness. The poem's concise language and simple structure emphasize its message, while its historical context during the rise of fascism adds to its relevance and critique of propaganda.
Cecil Day-Lewis. 1904–1972. Cecil Day-Lewis has two contrasting claims on our attention. The first is as an archetypal poet of the 1930s, the first-born, last-named member of the Auden/Spender/Day-Lewis triad, and the only one of those three friends whose commitment to Marxism extended to joining and working for the Communist Party.
A late poem by C. Day Lewis movingly describes Agnes’s loving care, and her eventual exile ten years later on the remarriage of her brother-in-law. After prep school in London, Cecil escaped his father by joining Sherborne School as a boarder.
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Mar 31, 2012 · Complete Poems. Cecil Day-Lewis. Random House, Mar 31, 2012 - Literary Criticism - 768 pages. Together with Auden, Spender and MacNeice, C. Day Lewis was one of the leading young poets...
- Cecil Day-Lewis
- Random House, 2012
- 1448104068, 9781448104062
- Complete Poems
Sep 28, 2021 · Internet Archive. Language. English. xxi, 745 pages ; 23 cm. Spine title: The complete poems. Edited by Jill Balcon. Includes index. Beechen Vigil 1925 -- Country Comets 1928 -- Transitional Poem 1929 -- From Feathers to Iron 1931 -- The Magnetic Mountain 1933 -- A Time to Dance 1935 -- Noah and the Waters 1936 -- Overtures to Death 1938 ...
Cecil Day-Lewis CBE (or Day Lewis; 27 April 1904 – 22 May 1972), often written as C. Day-Lewis, was an Anglo-Irish poet and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1968 until his death in 1972. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake , most of which feature the fictional detective Nigel Strangeways .
Cecil Day-Lewis was an Irish poet who served as Poet Laureate from 1968 to 1972. His work is often related to that of W.H. Auden and Stephen Spender. He wrote many important collections of poetry, like The Gate and Other Poems, and some prose as well, such as his autobiography The Buried Day.
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