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  1. Cecil Day Lewis 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. His early poetry , influenced by W. H. Auden, is marked by a strong left-wing political stance and the use of simple language and imagery.

  2. 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.

  3. 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. He was looked after by his father, with whom he had a difficult relationship, and by his mother’s sister, Agnes.

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  5. Sep 28, 2021 · The complete poems of C. Day Lewis by Day Lewis, C. (Cecil), 1904-1972. Publication date 1992 Topics English poetry Publisher Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press

  6. 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 the 1930s broke away from the poetic establishment of those days. Day Lewis started writing poetry very young and, despite an active career which embraced ...

    • Cecil Day-Lewis
    • Random House, 2012
    • 1448104068, 9781448104062
    • Complete Poems
  7. 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 .

  8. 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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