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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.
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.
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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.
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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 who in...
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.
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.
Apr 5, 2024 · Cecil Day-Lewis. Audio recordings of classic and contemporary poems read by poets and actors, delivered every day. Subscribe. More Episodes from Audio Poem of the Day. Showing 1 to 20 of 2,533 Podcasts. Sunday, May 19, 2024. [listen mother, he punched the air: I am not your son dying] Poets. D. A. Powell. Saturday, May 18, 2024.
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