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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.
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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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.
A late poem by C. Day Lewis movingly describes Agnes’s loving care, and her eventual exile ten years later on the remarriage of her brother-in-law. After prep school in London, Cecil escaped his father by joining Sherborne School as a boarder.
Cecil Day-Lewis was an Irish-born British poet, essayist, and novelist. He was one of the leading British poets in the 1930s and was appointed Poet Laureate in 1968.
The Anglo-Irish poet Cecil Day-Lewis was put forward to be the UK’s poet laureate in 1968 after two other frontrunners were dismissed as ineligible for the prestigious position.
May 21, 2018 · 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."
Cecil Day-Lewis, 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.
Mar 31, 2012 · 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...