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Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis was born on 29 April 1957 in Kensington, London, the second child of the poet Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–1972) and his second wife, actress Jill Balcon (1925–2009). His older sister, Tamasin Day-Lewis (born 1953), is a television chef and food critic. [ 14 ]
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.
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.
Oct 4, 1992 · When Daniel Day-Lewis was born, on April 29, 1957, his father, the poet Cecil Day-Lewis, greeted him with a poem. “The Newborn” is pastoral, with, as in much of C. Day-Lewis’s work, an...
- Joan Juliet Buck
C. Day-Lewis 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. The son of a clergyman, Day-Lewis was educated at the University of Oxford and taught school until 1935.
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In the early 1930’s Auden and Day Lewis, alongside Stephen Spender, Louis Macneice and others became known as a distinct group, expressing unease at the political and social crises of the decade and the rise of fascism. Day Lewis was the most politically active of the group, speaking at meetings and eventually joining the communist party.
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6 days ago · Day-Lewis was the second child of Cecil Day-Lewis, one of the leading British poets of the 1930s, and actress Jill Balcon and was the grandson of motion-picture producer Sir Michael Balcon.
