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- Born in Ireland and brought up in England, Cecil Day-Lewis began to dedicate himself to poetry when at Oxford in the 1920s. During the 1930s he became closely associated with WH Auden, Stephen Spender and Louis MacNeice, poets whose espousal of left-wing causes was reflected in their writing.
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The most obvious answer to the seeming paradox of Day-Lewis’s career is that his native poetic temperament was always romantic, even Georgian, and that the ideological overtones of his work in the 1930s were even then at war with a talent more at home with nature poetry and personal lyrics.
In 1946, Day-Lewis was a lecturer at Cambridge University, publishing his lectures in The Poetic Image (1947). Day-Lewis became a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in the 1950 Birthday Honours. He later taught poetry at Oxford, where he was Professor of Poetry from 1951 to 1956.
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Apr 23, 2024 · C. Day-Lewis (born April 27, 1904, Ballintubbert, County Leix, Ire.—died May 22, 1972, Hadley Wood, Hertfordshire, Eng.) was one of the leading British poets of the 1930s; he then turned from poetry of left-wing political statement to an individual lyricism expressed in more traditional forms.
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C. Day Lewis became acquainted with British-American poet W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender in the early 1920s and was deeply influenced by their leftist political views. In 1925, his first collection of poems, Beechen Vigil, was published.
By this time (1933) Day Lewis was teaching in a private school, but he soon found a more congenial way of earning money to support his real work as a poet. He began writing a series of detective novels under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake; these were popular and lucrative.
Like other poets of this era, Day Lewis explored themes of social justice, class struggle, and the search for meaning in a rapidly changing world. Later, Day Lewis's work shifted towards more personal and reflective themes, particularly as he took on the role of Poet Laureate in 1968.
English poet and critic. Examine the life, times, and work of Cecil Day Lewis through detailed author biographies on eNotes.
