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Cecil Day Lewis was an Irish poet and writer, later Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom. He is most remembered today for his own lyric poetry, his detective fiction written under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake, and for being the father of actor Daniel Day-Lewis.
Biography. Cecil Day-Lewis (who wrote as C. Day Lewis) was born in Ireland in 1904, the son of a Church of Ireland minister. The family moved to England in 1905 and his mother died three years later, when Cecil was four years old.
Cecil Day Lewis. The British poet, essayist, and detective story writer Cecil Day Lewis (1904-1972) regarded himself as a voice of revolution, both poetic and political, taking as a necessary starting point the "certainty of new life." Born on April 27, 1904, in Ballin togher, Ireland, C. Day Lewis was the only child of the Rev. F. C. Day Lewis.
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 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.
English poet and critic. Examine the life, times, and work of Cecil Day Lewis through detailed author biographies on eNotes.
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 who in...
Cecil Day-Lewis (1904-72) For the Investiture of the Prince of Wales. 1969. 53 x 38.2 x 0.8 cm (book measurement (conservation)) | RCIN 1055748. Description. Born in Ireland and brought up in England, Cecil Day-Lewis began to dedicate himself to poetry when at Oxford in the 1920s.
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